Software Engineer III, Full Stack, Play Integrity

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Experience with Android application development or Android internals.
• Knowledge of security or reverse engineering.
  

About The Job
Google's 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 Google's 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.
In this role, you will be applying software engineering skills, analysis and reverse engineering to protect app developers at scale. You will be at the heart of our Play automatic protections product, which is an established and recognised solution already used by thousands of apps and games on Play.
The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.
Responsibilities

• Develop and implement obfuscated virtual machine (VM) technologies as the core of application integrity protection.
• Develop encoding techniques to bind protection mechanisms deeply within application code, ensuring apps cannot run without protections.
• Design and strengthen anti-analysis and anti-tampering checks to detect and prevent unauthorized modifications to applications and their environments.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement and diversification of VM internals and bytecode, to counter evolving attack strategies.
• Research and integrate advanced security measures to enhance app security.
  

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