Staff Software Engineer, Mobile Threat Analysis Platform

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• Experience in end-to-end large scale distributed system development, productionization, monitoring, and release management.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in product development.
• Experience in debugging and optimizing large systems to improve performance and resource-efficiency.
• Experience in building Android apps and UIs, and in building APIs.
• Experience and knowledge in Android system or development.
• Experience in processing large volumes of data.

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 build state-of-art security and privacy analysis infrastructure for Play and Android to detect malicious and abusive apps. Together with partner teams across Android, Ads, Chrome, Search and Cloud, we help Google protect users with safe experiences on our app platform and ecosystem.

The infrastructure team under Mobile Threat Analysis Platform (MTAP) supports the analysis and signal generation to detect abusive and policy violating android applications.

The Platforms and Ecosystems product area encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications). The products provide enterprises, and ultimately end users, the ability to utilize and manage their services at scale. We build innovative and compelling software products-from apps to TVs, from laptops to phones-that have an impact on people's lives across the world.

Responsibilities

• Design and build orchestration workflows to analyze Android apps at Google scale.
• Design and build knowledge access APIs to surface impactful data efficiently.
• Collaborate with other teams in the organization and Google to deliver impact.
• Orchestrate knowledge sharing with external partners to leverage industry research to protect Android users across the globe.