Ads Threat Intelligence

Google

Location
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Salary range
CAD $150,000 – $153,000 base
Workplace
In office
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Investigations
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The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Canada. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Canada, add your pay to help others. Key skills at this level: follows evidence across accounts, signals and infrastructure without losing chain of reasoning, distinguishes coordinated behavior from coincidence, and documents findings to a standard that survives external review.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 2+ years.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from Google's posting.

Threat intelligence work inside Google's Ads security function, aimed at protecting the Ads ecosystem from adversarial attacks by decoding attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures. The team sits within Security and works alongside Ads Quality and Trust and Safety to protect users and advertisers on Google's advertising products.

What you'd do

  • Decode adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures used against the Ads ecosystem.
  • Build solutions that defend Ads products against constantly changing attacks.
  • Work with software engineers to find and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.
  • Analyze datasets to surface patterns and anomalies that point to abuse campaigns.
  • Translate technical findings into actionable recommendations for non-technical stakeholders.

What it asks for

  • Bachelor's degree in a computer science or security discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • Experience with Python, Go, C++, or Java.
  • Hands-on skill querying data with SQL and digging through datasets for irregular patterns.
  • Experience applying machine learning to classification or anomaly detection (preferred).
  • Track record running multi-team investigations or tying threat activity to specific campaigns (preferred).

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AI and model safety · Media and streaming · Infrastructure and developer tools · Mountain View, CA · More than 100,000 people · Founded 1998

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