Ads Threat Intelligence Security Developer

1 Hour ago • 1-2 Years • Cyber Security

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Job Description

The Ads Threat Intelligence Security Developer investigates security events, analyzes malicious behaviors and threat reports, builds tools for analyzing malvertising and ad abuse, tracks adversaries, identifies vulnerabilities in ad products, and assesses risks. This role requires collaboration with developers, analysts, and product managers to provide threat intelligence reports and build scaled threat intelligence platforms. Responsibilities include performing investigations, identifying and documenting signals, building analysis tools, owning the analysis of threat actors, and identifying vulnerabilities in ad products. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in malware analysis, web security testing, threat modeling, and understanding of ad serving products. There is a need to protect Google's users and the integrity of its advertising platform.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 1 year security assessment/design review/threat modeling experience
  • 1 year coding experience
  • Threat intelligence analysis and reporting
  • Malware analysis and web exploit investigation
  • Vulnerability identification and risk assessment
Good to have:
  • 2 years experience responding to security issues
  • Penetration testing and web application security testing
  • Understanding of web serving (HTTP, TCP, JavaScript)
  • Signals development, threat hunting, and threat modeling
  • Familiarity with ad serving products

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1 year of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
  • 1 year of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 2 years of experience in responding to security issues in goal-rich environments, analyzing security threats, front-line analysis and response.
  • Experience analyzing the security of systems (penetration testing, Web Application security testing, vulnerability scanning, threat modeling, etc).
  • Understanding of web serving (HTTP, TCP, JavaScript).
  • Expertise with malware analysis, including investigations of web based exploits.
  • Expertise with signals development, threat hunting and threat modeling.
  • Familiarity with the ad serving products.

About the job

There's no such thing as a "safe system" - only safer systems. Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. As a Security Engineer, you help protect network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks and provide security services to protect highly sensitive data like passwords and customer information. Security Engineers work directly with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. You also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

You use your industry experience to own and drive the resolution of complex security incidents, policy questions and technical security issues.

In partnership with developers, analysts, and product managers, this team provides unique threat intelligence reports/threat actor tracking, disruption and builds a scaled threat intelligence platform to advise on anti-abuse strategies in Google Ads and third-party ad products.

Responsibilities

  • Perform investigations on a wide variety of events to determine whether it poses a threat to Google users.
  • Identify, analyze, and document signals, malicious behaviors, and threat reports related to trends and developments in adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
  • Build/Improve tools for analyzing malvertising and other ad abuse attacks, identifying threats and tracking adversaries.
  • Own the analysis efforts of one or more threat actors, and serve as a subject matter expert on how actors might affect Google and our users.
  • Identify vulnerabilities in various ad products and assess risk of new and existing products.
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