Staff Data Scientist, Reddit
Scaled Enforcement
$206.7-289.4k
Plus equity
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Open for applications
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$206.7-289.4k
Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Relevant experiences in quantitative or data science roles, preferably for safety, enforcement engineering, fraud etc
- Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Machine Learning, Economics, Econometrics, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields (If M.S. or Bachelors degree, a minimum of 10+ years of industry data science experience required; If PhD degree, a minimum of 6+ years of industry data science experience required)
- Deep understanding of analyzing complex networks of behavior or large scale content patterns. Examples include network analysis, natural language processing at scale, clustering of unstructured data, etc
- Fluent with statistical analysis, programming languages (e.g., Python/R) and querying relational databases (e.g., SQL)
- Comfortable in innovative and fast-paced environments, and an innate ability to bias toward action
- Strong technical communication and demonstrated ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences alike
- Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems
- Experience with enforcement pipeline development and spam mitigation is preferred
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist specialized in Spam to join our Safety Enforcement Data Science team
- Our team focuses on identifying trends in platform activity signaling potential or existing threats, providing intelligence to relevant stakeholders, and developing automated enforcement pipelines
- Our scope includes harmful, scaled activity that is relevant to any of our policy violations, including spam, coordinated inauthentic behavior, and general abuse
- This role will involve exposure to sensitive content along with expectations of incident response on-call
- Elevate our enforcement strategy and capabilities by partnering with leaders in safety, community, and legal
- Lead our Scaled Abuse detection and enforcement efforts across all policy violations with an emphasis on the many forms of Spam
- Provide data driven guidance to our Product and Engineering teams in developing real time enforcement systems that enable us to mitigate exposure to harmful and unwanted content
- Mentor Data Scientists and Threat Analyst in technical approaches for mitigating and detecting abuse
- Share intelligence gathered to other safety stakeholders and executive decision makers
- Stay up to date with emerging trends and techniques in abuse detection and prevention while applying this knowledge to improve our systems
Our take
Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.
The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.
Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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