Per week in the past, Google posted a brand new job named Senior Engineering Analyst, Search, Anti-scraper and inside the week it has already been closed out. The LinkedIn web page says 49 folks utilized (via LinkedIn) – so it’s bizarre to me Google closed it so shortly.
The web optimization group felt this job was about hiring a specialist to dam folks/firms attempting to scrape the Google search outcomes. I imply, it’s within the title of the job itemizing.
However why did Google shut the job itemizing so shortly? The itemizing was additionally closed on Google’s website. Replace, the job posting is now over right here – so it was moved?
This was posted additionally on LinkedIn, 6 days in the past, by Isabelle Stanton, Director of Engineering at Google.
Here’s a screenshot of the job itemizing:
Right here have been the job necessities:
Minimal {qualifications}:
- Bachelor’s diploma or equal sensible expertise
- 5 years of expertise in knowledge evaluation, together with figuring out tendencies, producing abstract statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative knowledge.
- 5 years of expertise managing tasks and defining challenge scope, objectives, and deliverables.
- Expertise with statistical evaluation, knowledge science and knowledge evaluation.
Most popular {qualifications}:
- Grasp’s diploma in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Pc Science, Arithmetic, Engineering).
- 5 years of expertise in a data-intensive position similar to menace intelligence, knowledge science, belief and security, or fraud evaluation.
- Expertise with menace intelligence, anti-abuse, safety, community evaluation, fraud detection, and Search Engine Optimization (web optimization).
- Expertise with SQL, JavaScript, Python, or C++.
- Expertise with machine studying methods and ideas.
- Expertise in knowledge evaluation, knowledge science, statistical evaluation, abuse detection, spam, internet improvement, challenge administration, and fraud detection.
Tasks:
- Examine and analyze advanced patterns of abuse on Google Search, using data-motivated insights to develop countermeasures and improve platform safety. Analyze datasets to determine tendencies, patterns, and anomalies which will point out abuse inside Google Search.
- Develop and monitor metrics to measure scraper impression and the effectiveness of anti-scraping defenses. Collaborate with engineering groups to design, take a look at, and launch new anti-scraper guidelines, fashions, and system enhancements.
- Examine proof-of-concept assaults and analysis stories that determine blind spots and information the engineering crew’s improvement priorities. Consider the effectiveness of present and proposed detection mechanisms, understanding the impression on each scrapers and actual customers.
Contribute to the event of indicators and options for machine studying fashions to detect abusive habits. Develop and keep menace intelligence on scraper actors, motivations, ways and the scraper ecosystem.
This received plenty of consideration from the web optimization group earlier this week, which can be why Google closed it down?
Talking of blocking web optimization instruments…. pic.twitter.com/fBAMcTmh0O
— Ryan Jones (@RyanJones) September 16, 2025
Google is at warfare with different LLMs pic.twitter.com/aqBHg1KlAe
— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) September 16, 2025
And far more…
There’s clearly plenty of hypothesis in regards to the function of this job…
Discussion board dialogue at X.
