Anti Abuse Analyst II

Overview

Our Mission

Tinder launched in 2012 and has since connected people through hundreds of millions of matches across 190 countries and 45+ languages. The company has received multiple Effie Awards for its global brand campaigns and continues to scale its user base and engagement.

Our Values

One Team, One Dream

We work collaboratively across functions, teams, and time zones to achieve our vision and mission, thinking outside the box to serve our members.

Own It

We take accountability and strive for excellence through ownership and innovation.

Never Stop Learning

We cultivate a safe environment to take risks, seek feedback, celebrate wins, and learn from mistakes to continuously improve.

Spark Solutions

We are problem solvers who focus on moving forward when faced with obstacles, staying agile to achieve our goals.

Embrace Our Differences

We strive to reflect the diversity of our members and leverage diverse perspectives to build better experiences for users and the team.

The Team and Role

The Tinder Integrity team is responsible for systems, algorithms, and policies that keep Tinder and its members safe. It is a multidisciplinary team of engineers, ML practitioners, product managers, analysts, and policy experts.

Our Anti Abuse team proactively identifies, investigates, and mitigates scaled abuse and other threats to the platform’s integrity. The team designs, builds, tests, and implements automated detection signals and algorithms to target bad actors at scale.

Where you’ll work

This is a hybrid role and requires in-office collaboration two times per week (Los Angeles / Palo Alto).

In this role, you will

• Be on the front lines of addressing emerging threats by participating in an on-call rotation, providing incident response and triage, implementing algorithm updates, and executing timely actions to mitigate abuse and protect the platform at scale.
• Proactively identify and disrupt scaled abuse threats prevalent on the platform through enhancements and updates to automated detection systems.
• Monitor emerging anomalies in Tinder’s core KPIs (such as user activity) to identify and mitigate the root causes of malicious behavior.
• Leverage data mining and threat intelligence to track and profile persistent abuse threats and trends, linking their activity to KPIs and enabling targeted strategies.
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product and Policy to strengthen threat detection and remediation strategies.
• Continually improve our team’s ability to measure impact by partnering with analytics and data science teams to implement and refine metrics to better detect and understand nuanced abuse patterns.

You will need

• 1+ year of professional experience in data analytics or data science with a focus on Trust and Safety, Cybersecurity, Anti-Spam, Anti-Abuse, or a related field.
• Professional experience with Python, SQL, Spark, or similar big data query tools for building data models to support specialized analyses.
• Familiarity with Python-based analytics environments, such as Databricks, and/or with data visualization tools, such as Grafana, Mode, and Tableau.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, especially to executive and non-subject-matter-expert audiences.

Nice to have

• BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity or related field.
• Professional experience in creating and maintaining algorithms.
• Knowledge and familiarity with persistent scaled abuse threat actors.
• Experience uncovering indicators of abuse and applying creative strategies to mitigate.
• Experience in leading technical projects and mentoring junior team members.

Salary: $95,500 - $125,000 a year.

The salary range for this position is based in Los Angeles, CA and may be adjusted for geographic location and other factors.

Commitment to Inclusion

At Tinder, we celebrate difference and strive to build a workplace that reflects the diversity of our members. We invite you to apply even if you don’t meet all listed qualifications and welcome people of all sexes, gender identities, races, ethnicities, disabilities, and other lived experiences. Tinder is an equal opportunity employer. Learn more here:

If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to participate in the hiring process, please speak to your Talent Acquisition Partner directly.

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