Senior Anti-Abuse Analyst

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full-time

Posted on: 9/12/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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💰 $146,500 - $170,000 per year

Senior

Cyber SecurityPythonSparkSQLTableau

About the role

Own and lead detection areas, proactively identifying, investigating, and mitigating scaled abuse threats through data-driven insights, automation, and advanced detection techniques.
Lead and improve the on-call incident response process, ensuring efficient triage, escalation, and resolution of emerging threats. Define best practices and enhance automated responses to minimize manual intervention.
Monitor and investigate emerging abuse trends, linking anomalous activity to core KPIs and implementing proactive mitigation strategies.
Mentor and guide junior team members, sharing technical expertise, developing best practices, and ensuring consistency in detection methodologies.
Drive and deliver complex projects, from problem discovery to execution, ensuring measurable impact while continuously iterating on detection systems.
Develop scalable, durable and efficient abuse detection systems, optimizing for complexity, precision, and performance while proactively surfacing new abuse tactics and vulnerabilities.
Discover and address underlying abuse patterns, leveraging reports and insights from different sources to refine detection strategies and create repeatable engineering solutions.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Product, Policy, Member Experience, and Engineering) to align detection strategies with broader safety initiatives.

5+ years of experience working on complex abuse-adjacent problems such as Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, fraud, or risk
Proficiency in Python for automating detection workflows, data manipulation, and analysis
Strong command of SQL and experience with big data tools like Spark (or similar frameworks)
Hands on experience building and productionizing large-scale detection systems
Experience building dashboards or visualizations using Mode, Tableau, or similar tools
Deep knowledge of abuse threat actors and evasion tactics
Proven experience leading cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, and customer-facing teams
Exceptional communication and presentation skills
Nice to have: BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity or related field
Nice to have: Professional experience in creating and maintaining algorithms
Nice to have: Knowledge and familiarity with persistent scaled abuse threat actors
Nice to have: Experience uncovering indicators of abuse and applying creative strategies to mitigate
Nice to have: Experience in leading technical projects and mentoring junior team members