Threat Analyst, CyberCrime Investigation Group

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in investigations, data analysis, project management, or online threats.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 4 years of experience with investigations involving online threats.
• Experience with databases, collecting, managing, and synthesizing large and complex data sets from disparate sources.
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience dealing with sensitive and offensive content and interacting with law enforcement.
• Ability and willingness to work across time zones, including sporadic off-hours work and weekend oncall work, to communicate with a distributed team.
  
  

About The Job

Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.

The CyberCrime Investigation Group: Imminent Threat (CCIG: IT) team protects Google and our users by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to identify, investigate, and disrupt significant threats of violence and self-harm that are occurring on our products. The team serves as the central point of contact for incidents involving potential data disclosure and/or law enforcement involvement.

As a Threat Analyst, you'll work side-by-side with investigators and legal counsel to drive cases to effective courses of action. You will also work cross-functionally with groups within Legal, Product, Security, and external parties.

You will participate in an on-call rotation that is a shared responsibility and expectation of the role, once provided training has been completed.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $90,500-$130,000 + 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 at Google .

Responsibilities

• Support investigations involving imminent threats of physical harm and other malicious behavior.
• Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24x7 support.
• Triage incoming leads, conduct investigations, research, and analysis to assist with identification, attribution, connections, and location of subjects. Determine courses of action, and document and communicate results to relevant stakeholders.
• Operate independently and advance investigations forward through analysis and research.
• Review or be exposed to sensitive or graphic content as part of core role.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .