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Build the data pipeline infrastructure powering Google's Threat Intelligence Group

Join the Data Pipelines team within Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG)-Tech, building and scaling infrastructure that ingests threat data sources and delivers intelligence to analysts and security teams across Alphabet. Requires software design/architecture experience plus hands-on background building software for data privacy or security.

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Likely format

Google SWE loop: recruiter screen, technical phone screen(s) with coding, onsite loop covering coding, system/data pipeline design, and Googleyness/leadership; hiring committee review follows.

What this interview tests

  • Bulk data pipeline design for large-scale ingestion
  • Security/privacy-aware software design (identity and access management)
  • Data storage and normalization tradeoffs (SQL vs NoSQL)
  • Testing, launching, and maintaining production software

Common question themes

Design a data pipeline to ingest and normalize large volumes of threat data

Tell me about building software with security or privacy as a core design constraint

Data structures and algorithms coding problem

How do you choose between SQL and NoSQL storage for a given pipeline

Describe testing and launching a software product, including what broke post-launch

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