This role pays more than
61%
of similar roles. Most pay
$146,875–$234,750
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$201k
versus about
$191k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.
Reddit currently has
76 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$217,000–$303,000
across 76 roles with salary data.
Staff Threat Analyst, Ads Fraud serves as the operational architect for Advertiser Fraud within the Safety team. This role involves end-to-end ownership of establishing strategies, building foundational detection playbooks, and defining enforcement frameworks to protect the advertising ecosystem from bad actors. The individual will conduct deep-dive investigations into complex fraud networks, perform root-cause analysis, and partner with cross-functional Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to convert adversarial insights into scalable automated defenses. Key responsibilities include prioritizing risks like account takeover, payment fraud, and cloaking while designing standardized operational playbooks. The role requires proficiency in SQL, Python or R, and big data environments to query petabyte-scale datasets and construct network graphs. Candidates must possess expertise in digital ad ecosystems, ad serving infrastructure, and using AI/LLMs as investigative copilots to build detection classifiers.
SQL
Python
AI
Graph Analysis
Anomaly Detection
Data Science
Rule Engines
BI Tools
Case Management Systems
Threat Modeling
Incident Response
Root Cause Analysis
Data Querying
Scripting
Automation