Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of professional software development experience
- Experience with software development using C++ and JavaScript.
- Experience with chrome extensions, web browsers, or other client applications, including web technologies (HTTP/HTML/JS), as well as experience in one of the following: web security, anti-abuse, or threat modeling.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience in technical leadership, leading project teams, and setting technical direction on large team
- Experience with software development using Python and Java.
- Demonstrated thought leadership as a team lead in an analytical anti-abuse environment, such as fraud, spam or other behavioral abuse.
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.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
In Chrome, we’re building a browser for everyone, so that users and developers can reach each other with content, communication, and productivity. Our open-source platform has led the way for other browsers and has brought a safer, speedier, simpler, and more stable experience to users on the web. Our mission on Chrome’s Counter Abuse team is to protect users on the web from abuse by malware and phishing, and to drive the industry towards a more defensible web. As a key part of Chrome’s well recognized security team, Counter Abuse is the last line of defense between the user and harmful sites and apps.
Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.
Responsibilities
- Help ensure the platform and ecosystem are safe from malware, exploits, and user harm.
- Lead projects in Chrome to provide visibility into Chrome extensions behavior with clients. This includes uncovering malicious activity that has been invisible to Google in the past.
- Help design features across Chromium which includes: reviewing extension-related designs for security, propose and build new security mechanisms and UX, and help drive the security posture for Chrome extensions ecosystem
- Work closely with Chrome teams and cross-functional partners