Senior Engineering Analyst, Messages Spam and Abuse

Google

Google is a global technology company that builds products and provides services to organize the world's information.

Kirkland, WA, USA • Austin, TX, USA

$139,000 - $207,000

Security

Mid-Level Software Engineer

In-Person

5,000+ Employees

5+ years of experience

Cybersecurity

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Description For Senior Engineering Analyst, Messages Spam and Abuse

Google's Trust and Safety (T&S) team is seeking a Senior Engineering Analyst to join their Messages Spam and Abuse team. This role is crucial in protecting Google's users across various products like Ads, Maps, Chrome, Play, Gmail, and Search. The position focuses on preventing abuse within the messaging ecosystem (xMS, RCS, RBM, Google Messages), specifically targeting phishing, malware, scams, and unwanted interactions.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in data analysis, project management, and security/anti-abuse systems. You'll work with cutting-edge technology and collaborate with Engineers and Product Managers globally to develop and implement abuse protections at Google scale. The role requires expertise in SQL, Python, or Golang, with knowledge of messaging systems and fraud prevention.

This position offers competitive compensation ($139,000-$207,000) plus bonus, equity, and benefits. You'll be part of a diverse team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers working across 40+ languages. The role provides an opportunity to directly impact user safety and trust in Google's products while working on complex challenges in cyber security and abuse prevention.

Key responsibilities include analyzing trends, developing anti-abuse solutions, building monitoring systems, and leading cross-functional projects. You'll need excellent communication skills to present findings and influence stakeholders at various levels. The role requires critical thinking and adaptability in an ever-changing environment, making it perfect for someone passionate about online safety and user protection.

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Responsibilities For Senior Engineering Analyst, Messages Spam and Abuse

Analyze emerging trends, conduct complex data analysis, and identify new signals to develop solutions for scaled enforcement
Develop an understanding of abuse in messaging, current cross-product workflows, and available intelligence
Work with cross-functional teams to design and build anti-abuse protections leveraging reputation at all levels
Build monitoring and alerting dashboards to track abuse levels, perform quality checks
Lead projects to prevent Google's infrastructure from being abuse, harm or fraud

Requirements For Senior Engineering Analyst, Messages Spam and Abuse

Python

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
5 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data
5 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables
Experience with data analysis and database management (e.g., SQL, Python, etc.)

Benefits For Senior Engineering Analyst, Messages Spam and Abuse

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Equity

Competitive base salary
Bonus
Equity
Comprehensive benefits package

Google

Google is a global technology company that builds products and provides services to organize the world's information.

Kirkland, WA, USA • Austin, TX, USA

$139,000 - $207,000

Security

Mid-Level Software Engineer

In-Person

5,000+ Employees

5+ years of experience

Cybersecurity

Google

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Data Structures & AlgorithmsHard

Let's simulate a coding interview scenario. I'd like you to solve a problem and articulate your thought process as you go. Imagine you're given an array of integers. Your task is to write a function that finds the length of the longest strictly increasing subsequence in that array. A strictly increasing subsequence is a sequence of numbers from the array such that each number is greater than the previous one, and their original order in the array is maintained. For example, in the array [1, 3, 2, 4, 5], one possible increasing subsequence is [1, 2, 4, 5], and the longest increasing subsequence is [1, 2, 4, 5], which has a length of 4. Another possible increasing subsequence is [1, 3, 4, 5] which has length of 4. Your function should return 4 in this case. Another example is [10, 9, 2, 5, 3, 7, 101, 18]. The longest increasing subsequence is [2, 3, 7, 18], which has a length of 4. Your function should return 4. Can you describe your approach and then implement the function? Consider edge cases, like an empty array or an array with only one element. How would your approach handle those? What is the time and space complexity of your solution?

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