Software Engineer, Egregious Abuse Protection (English)

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
  
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  
• Ability to communicate in English fluently as this is a customer-facing role that requires interactions in English with local stakeholders.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
  
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
  
• Experience in Go, Python, C++, Abuse Detection, Machine Learning.
• Ability to drive navigation of ambiguous and open-ended problems, collaborative and excellent communication skills to drive cross-collaboration, and self-driven.
  
• Excellent coding skills.
  

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

In this role, you will help create a safer world by preventing abuse and harm across Google products.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Work with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional groups across Google.
  
• Collaborate with Product Management and critical Product Area like Trust and Safety, Photos, Workspace and YouTube to develop centralized abuse fighting systems to help clients detect egregious material and bad actors on their products.
  
• Develop critical infrastructure components to ingest signals, hashes and data from third party APIs and user reports to help build repositories of centralized signals for identification of Non Consensual content and other harm types.
  
• Build systems to help reviewers assess and deliver enforcement decisions in a proportionate and privacy sensitive manner.
  
• Develop distributed infrastructure to handle Google scale data across all User generated content to identify content that is suspected to be egregious.