Senior Engineering Analyst, YouTube Scaled Abuse

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in collecting, managing, and synthesizing data sets and information, statistical modeling, data mining, and data analysis.
• 5 years of experience in managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), or 5 years of work experience with a Master's degree.
• Experience in applying adversarial ML research.

About the job

Fast-paced, dynamic, and proactive, YouTube’s Trust & Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to create, and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving their online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust & Safety team is on the frontlines of enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in our ever-evolving digital world.

In this role, you will be analyzing data and scaled systems of review. You will be a contributor to the strategy for reducing network badness on YouTube. You will be a thinker with sound metrics judgment who has a passion for coaching others, solving technological tests and setting scalable standards. You will balance the requirements while demonstrating the ability to make quantitatively based recommendations. You will require on-call work at weekends on a rotational basis. You will be also exposed to graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive video content during team escalations in line with YouTube’s Community Guidelines.At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Apply advanced statistical methods to data sets to understand the impact of abuse to the YouTube ecosystem. Contribute strategy and development of new workflows against additional known vectors of abuse.
• Learn technical concepts and systems and deliver results using them. Communicate technical results and methods.
• Maintain and promote quality by providing regular feedback metrics to the Global team. Manage technological solutions for streamlining quality assurance and produce training solutions to emergent workflows.
• Perform fraud and spam investigations using various data sources, identify product vulnerabilities and drive anti-abuse experiments to prevent abuse. Work with engineers and interact cross-functionally with stakeholders to improve workflows via process improvements, automation and anti-abuse system creation.
• Develop training materials, create consensus and maintain communication for YouTube Scaled Abuse with business stakeholders.