Threat Analyst, Scaled Enforcement

Detect, analyze, and mitigate sophisticated spam operations. Investigate emerging spam tactics and develop scalable defenses. Requires 3+ years of experience in threat analysis.

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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.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k Match
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
Generous paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$123,200—$172,500 USD

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