Staff Software Engineer, Search Abuse
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
- Salary range
- USD $207,000 – $300,000 base · 20% bonus
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- Today
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P4, Staff. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P4 · asks for 8+ years · posts $207k to $300k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
About the job
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 Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Implement full-stack protections for the Search product family, primarily in Java with some JavaScript and C++.
- Perform data analysis to understand unauthorized access patterns and potential solutions.
- Participate in technical designs, sprint planning, and roadmap discussions.
- Contribute to a positive team culture, including feedback to help the team iterate on team values and norms as we scale up, improving multi-site and cross-functional communication, and improving engineering processes.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
- 5 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management).
- 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 3 years of experience working in a structured organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- Experience with anti-abuse or security using Google or industry-equivalent technologies and methodologies.
In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
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About Google
AI and model safety · Media and streaming · Infrastructure and developer tools · Mountain View, CA · More than 100,000 people · Founded 1998
Search, advertising, Android, YouTube and Cloud, and the source of Perspective API and Jigsaw.
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