Staff Software Developer, reCAPTCHA Fraud Prevention
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
- 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
- 2 years of applied machine learning experience building machine learning workflows and infrastructure.
- 2 years of experience building and developing infrastructure or distributed systems.
- Experience in a technical leadership role overseeing projects, or in a supervision/team leadership role.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
- 2 years of experience in machine learning evaluation, anomaly detection, or a similar role.
- 2 years of experience in a people management role.
- Experience with anomaly detection techniques and tools.
- Understanding of machine learning evaluation methodologies, metrics, and best practices.
About the job
Google's software developers 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 software developers 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 developer, 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 software developers 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.With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
This team dives deep into the payment vertical, detecting attacks such as carding, chargeback fraud and gift card fraud on 100k+ sites that use reCAPTCHA to protect their payment actions. Attackers can obtain outsized value in financial fraud compared to more traditional competencies of the reCAPTCHA engine, so building new signals, models, and verdicts in this new area will greatly expand the addressable market of our product. As a member of the Payment Fraud product under the reCAPTCHA umbrella, you will work very closely with the product manager to define the goal and strategy.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
- Influence and coach a distributed team of developers.
- Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
- Design, develop and be responsible for software systems specifically aimed at detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions for the payment systems.
- Solve deep technical challenges in integrating insights across reCAPTCHA ecosystem with the innovation of creating new signals and models to stop fraudsters in their tracks.
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