Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 1 year of experience analyzing cyber threats and working with technical and cyber security concepts. Ability to communicate in English fluently. Preferred qualifications: Certification in Security+ or similar Cyber Security/Incident Response. Experience with automation via coding or scripting. Experience analyzing, triaging, and remediating common information security incidents. Understanding of common attacker tactics, tools, and techniques. Ability to work separately, prioritize, and multitask. Excellent problem-solving and investigative skills. About The Job Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what's right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety. The Detection team develops and maintains the signals, tools, and infrastructure that we use, constantly evolving them to match sophisticated attackers. They investigate security events, threat hunting and perform malware indicator analysis. In this role, you will create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. You will defend network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks and provide security services to protect sensitive data such as passwords and customer information. You will monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions and work to proactively identify flaws and vulnerabilities. At Google we work hard to earn our users' trust every day. Trust & Safety is Google's team of abuse fighting and user trust experts working daily to make the internet a safer place. We partner with teams across Google to deliver bold solutions in abuse areas such as malware, spam and account hijacking. A diverse team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers, we work to reduce risk and fight abuse across all of Google's products, protecting our users, advertisers, and publishers across the globe in over 40 languages. Responsibilities Search for anomalous activity via manual hunting at Alphabet scale. Escalate complex/unusual incidents to Detection and Response teams. Lead response efforts to low severity incidents. Support the response to high and medium severity security incidents as directed. Analyze security alerts in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and other external alert sources. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
