Google's Ads Safety team is responsible for protecting users, advertisers, and the platform from fraudulent, harmful, and low-quality Ad experiences. The team needs to address complex challenges in an adversarial space, including scams, fraud, malware, and misinformation, to ensure user trust and business integrity.
Requirements
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing/launching software products.
- 3 years of experience working in Trust and Safety, Ads, Anti-Fraud, Anti-Spam, or a similar security-focused domain.
- 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
- 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- Experience with machine learning, particularly applying models to classification, anomaly detection, or risk-scoring problems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, low-latency, and reliable systems for real-time Ad scanning, detection, and enforcement. Own the full lifecycle of the systems.
- Lead the technical direction for the actor safety organization. This includes leading complex projects, from initial design to production deployment.
- Develop and implement sophisticated detection logic, models, and tools to combat abuse vectors, including account takeovers and fraudulent payments, and malicious ad creatives.
- Build and support the data pipelines and ML infrastructure that power the detection models, enabling rapid model iteration and deployment.
- Design, build, and scale the distributed systems, Machine Learning infrastructure, and detection tools that identify and prevent abuse.
- Mentor junior engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and set a high bar for engineering excellence.
- Partner with product managers, and Trust and Safety to understand emerging threats and build effective, scalable solutions.
Other
- Display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
- This role requires a blend of strong systems design, product intuition, and a passion for creating a safer online experience for millions of users.
- Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
