Staff Technical Threat Investigator, Trust and Safety Intel Investigations
Google· Trust and Safety
Washington D.C.$188k - $274kFull-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Senior technical investigator role focused on identifying high-severity on-platform abuse, leading multi-quarter threat investigations, and architecting scalable, AI-first defense solutions across Google products.
Responsibilities
- Identify and lead investigations into sophisticated emerging actor networks and behaviors across Google’s ecosystem by correlating complex internal telemetry, OSINT, and third-party intelligence at scale.
- Define the technical strategy and design for technology-enabled automation, building modular, production-grade SQL and Python pipelines, LLM/agentic workflows, and evaluation frameworks to support proactive threat discovery.
- Partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Product leads across Product Areas to uplevel abuse-fighting infrastructure, implement high-precision signals, and optimize detection systems’ performance.
- Author business requirements and technical designs, negotiate shared roadmaps and resource commitments across partners, and align competing priorities into cohesive defense strategies.
- Review exposure to graphic, controversial, or objectionable material (including child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, severe fraud/scams, and other disturbing content).
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Studies, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in data analysis, cybersecurity, or technical threat investigations, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative datasets.
- 7 years of experience utilizing SQL, Python, or similar scripting/programming languages to query datasets, build data pipelines, and solve engineering and abuse-detection problems
- 7 years of experience managing projects, including defining multi-quarter project scope, goals, and deliverables in a globally distributed environment.
Skills
Required:SQLPython
Benefits
- Benefits information referenced in the job description link (Google benefits) — not enumerated in text, but available via the linked page.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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