Staff Software Engineer, Android App Security, Sensitive Verticals

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
• Experience in back-end technologies or any of the following languages: C++, Java, Python or Go.

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience with distributed systems, big data processing, Machine Learning (ML) modeling, data science.

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.

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

• Own critical areas of Android App Safety's Content Abuse Mitigation and tech-lead a team with high visibility and impact.
• Lead the design, implementation and delivery of major changes to the Content Abuse infrastructure, making deep technical contributions to achieve goals around building a fast, effective and scalable infrastructure that is geared towards automation.
• Prioritize and lead the execution of major changes to critical App Safety's Content Abuse systems, mitigating risk and planning the work across teams, balancing between near and long term goals and plans along with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Understand, streamline and improve an ecosystem of interacting components. Work in a high paced environment and have the ability to adapt to a fast changing regulatory environment.
  
• Mentor junior engineers.