Staff Engineering Analyst Manager, Account Security

About the job

In this role, you will lead our new, dynamic Trust and Safety Account Threats team in Kirkland, collaborate with our existing teams in Zurich and Bangalore. You will be focused on rapid incident response to protect billions of users from account compromise, scaled account abuse, and other emerging threats. You and the team will be on the front lines, in-depth into active security incidents, analyzing data to understand threats, and taking action to keep our users safe.

Our mission is to protect Google accounts and products from a range of threats and abuse. You will lead and grow the team to respond to critical incidents, analyse data to programmatically find and close vulnerabilities in our protections and to make our response more efficient.

You will help us find and understand how the most sophisticated threat actors are getting their Google accounts and help us strategically stay ahead of them, by partnering across Trust and Safety, Engineering and Product teams. While the role’s focus is on managing the team, you will also contribute to the analysis, resolution and communication especially of the most critical cases.

At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust & Safety is Google’s team of abuse fighting and user trust experts working daily to make the internet a safer place. We partner with teams across Google to deliver bold solutions in abuse areas such as malware, spam and account hijacking. A team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers, we work to reduce risk and fight abuse across all of Google’s products, protecting our users, advertisers, and publishers across the globe in over 40 languages.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of engineering analysts in Seattle and build relationships with the T&S Applied Data Intelligence (ADI) leads and Engineering/Program Manager (PM) partners to connect the team.
• Drive strategic leadership to expand our incident response and forensic capabilities in particular focusing on large-scale data analysis from different sources and view points.
• Utilize your cross-functional collaboration skills, influencing senior stakeholders to make data-driven changes to our strategy protecting Google accounts.
• Provide operational leadership for security incidents affecting many or high-risk users.
• Perform on-call responsibilities on a rotating basis, including weekend coverage/holidays.