Manager, Scaled Abuse Countermeasures and Research
Core
Lead the Scaled Abuse Countermeasures and Research (SCAR) team to serve as Discord's first line of defense against high-volume threats like fake accounts, spam, and fraud using ML-driven automation and threat research.
Role type
Manager, Scaled Abuse Countermeasures and Research
Builds
Automated incident response workflows, ML-driven detection systems, and structured threat research programs
Domain
Trust & Safety, Fraud Prevention, Adversarial Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
People management of technical teams, Trust & Safety/fraud/anti-abuse domain expertise, ML and automation strategy, SQL and Python for data analysis, Behavioral economics reasoning, Cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
LLMs/AI agents for automation, Threat intelligence research, Gaming platform experience
Technologies
SQL, Python, ML frameworks, AI agents
Responsibilities
Lead and grow the SCAR team of Scaled Abuse Scientists, Define team vision and north-star metrics for scaled abuse, Stand up a structured research program on attacker operations, Partner with Safety ML to integrate signals into automated countermeasures, Coach and hire technical talent, Communicate attacker dynamics to senior leadership
Seniority
Manager, hands-on leadership
