Staff Threat Analyst (Ads Fraud)

Location: Remote within the United States; optional access to offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago.

Base salary: $167,500–$234,500 USD per year, plus potential equity and commission depending on the position offered.

Company

Reddit operates a large online community platform with an advertising ecosystem serving users, communities, and advertisers.

What you will do

• Set the multi-quarter strategy and system architecture for advertiser fraud detection and enforcement.
• Prioritize and investigate account takeover, payment and billing fraud, cloaking, deceptive ads, and network abuse.
• Analyze complex fraud networks, perform root-cause analysis, and map adversarial infrastructure.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Operations, Ads, and Policy teams to build detection logic, risk scores, and automated enforcement pipelines.
• Design and standardize investigative playbooks, escalation frameworks, QA standards, and feedback loops.
• Translate adversarial insights into strategic guidance for senior leadership.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in threat intelligence, ad tech safety, trust and safety investigations, or platform integrity.
• Experience focused on ad fraud, financial crime, account takeover, or spam abuse.
• Experience building threat response frameworks from scratch in ambiguous environments.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Python or R, and big data environments, including petabyte-scale datasets and adversarial network graphs.
• Experience using AI and LLMs as investigative copilots and partnering with machine learning teams on LLM-based detection classifiers.
• Deep knowledge of digital advertising ecosystems, ad-serving infrastructure, and ad-specific fraud patterns.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with global advertising compliance, privacy regulations, and regulatory reporting standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work within the United States, with optional office access.
• Healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) with employer match and flexible vacation.
• Paid volunteer time, parental leave, family planning support, and gender-affirming care.
• Mental health, coaching, professional development, caregiving, and other global benefit programs.

Hiring process

• Some interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI; candidates may opt out before scheduled interviews.