Senior Engineering Traffic Analyst, Search, Anti-scraper

About the role

As a traffic integrity analyst, you will protect Google Search by using your analytical skills to understand the evolving bot and scraper landscape, identify new abuse and inorganic traffic patterns, and measure the effectiveness of protections. You will work closely with software engineers, data scientists and site reliability engineers to develop, deploy and refine countermeasures, tracking threat actors and their impact on real users.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze patterns of abuse on Google Search and datasets to identify trends, patterns and anomalies indicating abuse.
• Develop and track metrics on scraper impact and anti-scraper defense effectiveness, and help design, test and launch new anti-scraper rules, models and system enhancements.
• Review proof-of-concept attacks and research reports, evaluate detection mechanisms and assess their impact on scrapers and real users.
• Contribute to machine learning signals and features for detecting abusive behavior, and maintain threat intelligence on scraper actors, motivations, tactics and the scraper ecosystem.

Required profile

• 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 scope, goals and deliverables.
• Preferred: Master's degree in a quantitative field, 5 years in a data-intensive role such as threat intelligence, data science, trust and safety or fraud analysis, and experience with SQL, JavaScript, Python or C++.

Required skills

• Statistical analysis, data science and data analysis.
• Machine learning systems and concepts.
• Preferred: threat intelligence, anti-abuse, security, network analysis, fraud detection and SEO.

What we offer

• Pay of $159,000 - $230,000 USD plus a 15% bonus target, equity and benefits.
• Choice of working location: Mountain View, CA, USA; Zurich, Switzerland; or New York, NY, USA.