Software Engineer, Mobile Threat Analysis Platform

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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

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 our 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 Play and Android to detect malicious and abusive apps. Together with partner teams across Android, Ads, Chrome, Search and Cloud, we help protect users with safe experiences on our app platform and ecosystem.

Android is our open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits.

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 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 to deliver impact.

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