Google

Engineering Analyst, Trust and Safety Payments

Google$132K — $189K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of data analysis experience including trend identification and statistics.
  • 2 years of experience in the Payments industry focused on risk or fraud management.
  • 2 years of project management experience, defining scope and deliverables.
  • Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (preferred).
  • Proficient in programming languages such as Python or R and machine learning libraries.
  • Ability to identify workflow inefficiencies and automate processes.

Responsibilities

  • Manage fraud and abuse mitigation efforts to ensure user trust across Google products.
  • Investigate incidents and conduct statistical analyses to detect patterns.
  • Design and implement comprehensive fraud prevention strategies based on product vulnerabilities.
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to enhance tools and improve system efficiency.
  • Work with cross-functional teams globally to address user safety challenges.

Benefits

  • Access to a wide range of benefits, including health, wellness, and retirement plans.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Flexible working conditions to promote work-life balance.
  • Equity options and performance bonuses to enhance overall compensation.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
  • 2 years of experience in the Payments industry, working on risk or fraud management.
  • 2 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
  • Strong project and program management skills and experience.
  • Working knowledge in one or more of the following areas: programming languages (e.g., Python, R, C/C ), statistical analysis (e.g., Scipy) and machine learning libraries (e.g., Scikit-learn, TF), Large Language Models (LLMs) or Generative AI Agents.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify workflow pain points, optimize, automate and scale processes.
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.


About the job

Trust and Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that test the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and partners from abuse across Google products such as Play, Cloud, Pay, YouTube, Shopping, Fi.

In this role, you are a big-picture thinker and team-player, passionate about doing what's right. You will work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers identifying and fighting abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. You will take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote users' trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.
You will be responsible for restricting or preventing fraudsters and abusers to ensure a safe and secure payments environment for our users. You will be keen to identify and solve complex problems and have very strong problem-solving and technical skills to innovate and optimize our processes and tools. You will be proactive, motivated, organized, responsible, innovative and are able to work well in a changing, global, cross-functional, and team-oriented environment and demonstrate very strong technical know-how, effective communication to get things done. You will also work with product and engineering teams to make sure that new products and features provide a good, safe experience for users.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $132000 - $189000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Manage payment fraud and abuse mitigation to promote user trust and safety across Google products.
  • Investigate incidents and perform statistical analysis to identify trends and generate risk management solutions.
  • Assess product vulnerabilities to design and implement end-to-end fraud and abuse mitigation strategies.
  • Collaborate with global Engineering and Product teams to enhance tools, develop signals, and improve system efficiency.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Learn more about Google
Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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