About the Role
Title: Threat Analyst, Scaled Enforcement
Location:
Remote – United States
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Location: US remote-friendly or any office location – SF, LA, CHI, NY
We are looking for a highly skilled Threat Analyst, Scaled Enforcement to join our team. This role will focus on detecting, analyzing, and mitigating sophisticated spam operations on our platform. You will investigate emerging spam tactics, including account takeovers, SEO spam, bot networks, and monetization schemes. Your insights will directly inform enforcement strategies and help us build scalable defenses to protect our users and platform integrity.
Responsibilities:
- Investigate and provide enforcement response for spam-related threats, including coordinated manipulation and bot-driven activity.
- Analyze patterns and trends in spam operations, including SEO manipulation, account takeovers, and fraudulent engagement.
- Work closely with data science and engineering teams to develop detection models to enhance automated enforcement.
- Develop frameworks and playbooks for rapid response to emerging spam threats.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, content moderation, and policy, to drive proactive threat mitigation efforts.
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in threat analysis, spam detection, or abuse investigations within social media, e-commerce, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of spam tactics, including bot-driven engagement, SEO abuse, and account compromise.
- Experience analyzing large datasets to uncover abuse patterns and trends.
- Hands-on experience working with detection systems, including heuristics, rules-based, and ML-based approaches.
- Demonstrated proficiency in SQL.