Rapid Response Analyst - Trust and Safety
- Location
- San Jose, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $97,200 – $180,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- T&S Operations
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. The typical base salary for that level in Scaled Ops & Moderation is $130k to $190k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: reads queue health from the metrics and knows which ones lie, balances accuracy, throughput and wellbeing as one problem, and runs a shift against demand that spikes without warning.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 4+ years · posts $97k to $180k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Front-line incident response for major global Trust & Safety events on a large short-video platform, covering proactive sweeps for violative content, live containment of high-risk material, and upkeep of the incident response playbooks. The Rapid Response team sits within Trust & Safety and exists to keep users safe by responding to incidents of varying severity.
What you'd do
- Coordinate the response to global Trust & Safety incidents, from emerging threats through to resolution.
- Run proactive sweeps across platform features to find violative content and emerging trends before they escalate.
- Contain high-risk content quickly during live incidents to limit escalation.
- Design and tune incident and containment workflows that mix automated tooling with human review.
- Analyze incident data to find risk areas and turn findings into mid-term mitigations and longer-term policy, product and process changes.
- Work with Public Policy, Legal, Product, Engineering, PR and other teams on incident communications and fixes.
- Lead post-incident reviews, measure how well response actions worked, and update playbooks.
What it asks for
- Comfortable and effective when work volume and pace are high.
- Strong quantitative skills and SQL proficiency for finding enforcement gaps in moderation systems.
- Working knowledge of global legal and regulatory frameworks for online safety and harm prevention.
- Ability to explain complex issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience in a technology or digital platform environment (preferred).
Worth knowing
- May be exposed to harmful content as part of core work, projects, incident requests, or by chance.
- Rotational weekend availability required.
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About TikTok

The employer
About TikTok
Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016
Short-form video platform, run by ByteDance outside the US and by a joint venture of Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX inside it since 2026.
Moderation, reported
TikTok filed 37.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.
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