Listing Description
Detecting and responding to spam is an interesting problem for both engineers and analysts. Whereas with most problems it's you and the data, with spam there is an adversary as well. GitHub is looking for an analyst who is excited by this problem and is confident in building tools and algorithms to outsmart both human and bot adversaries.
As a member of GitHub's Security team, you will be working with other analysts and engineers to keep track of spam and help our system adapt with new detection methods.
If you love a hard problem and care about making the Internet a better place, then this may be the gig for you!Work with other analysts, engineers and co-workers to fight spam!
Use in-house tools to fight spam and categorize content for machine learning
Design, implement, and measure new methods of detecting spam
Use data to develop hypotheses about spammy behavior
Ability to use and develop metrics/KPIs to continually experiment and improve effectiveness and efficiency
Work effectively and efficiently in a rapidly changing spam threat environment
Partner with other internal teams at GitHub to solve problems at scale
Note: In this position, you may encounter pornographic or abusive content. On-call work may be required.
Requirements skills and experience
A strong desire to prevent spam and subvert spammers
A strong Spamgefühl (an intuitive sense of what is spammy content and behavior, and what is not)
Experience with content analysis, pattern recognition, or applied statistics
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Background working with a variety of data analysis tools
A working knowledge of regular expressions and SQL
Preferred skills and experience
Experience fighting spam, fraud, and abusive activity at scale
Building content and behavior classifiers (rule-based or machine-learned)
Experience using Git and GitHub
Practical software development skills, especially in Ruby and Python
BA/BS in Computer Science, Math/Finance, Physics, Applied Economics, Statistics or other technical field
Listing Details
- Citizenship: No Requirements
- Incentives: Not Provided
- Education: No Requirements
- Travel: No Travel
- Telework: Full Telecommute