Software Engineer, Mobile Threat Analysis Platform

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in C++ or Python.
• Experience with program analysis.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms in either an academic or industry setting.
• 2 years of experience with performance, large scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
• Experience with static or dynamic analysis.
• Experience with security/privacy.

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.

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

Responsibilities

• Contribute to product or system development code to build detection technologies to protect Android users from Security and Privacy threats.
• Design and build automated static program analysis frameworks at Google scale.
• Design and build secure and helpful code exploration based reverse engineering tools.
• Research and propose new ideas to detect trending malware and abusive apps using static analysis.
• Collaborate with other teams in the organization and Google to deliver impact.