Scaled Abuse Specialist, Special Projects & Investigations
- Location
- Tempe, Arizona, USA
- Salary range
- USD $102,000 – $178,400 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Investigations
- Posted
- 6 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $110k to $160k at an employer this size. Key skills at this level: follows evidence across accounts, signals and infrastructure without losing chain of reasoning, distinguishes coordinated behavior from coincidence, and documents findings to a standard that survives external review.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 3+ years · posts $102k to $178k base at a company over 5,000 · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Amazon's posting.
Scaled abuse work on Amazon's stores, run by the Special Projects & Investigations team inside Customer Trust. The team finds abuse at its earliest point, traces root causes and vulnerabilities, and builds systematic fixes so the same abuse doesn't recur across stores worldwide.
What you'd do
- Run risk analyses and manipulate large, complex datasets using SQL, Python and R.
- Make high-level judgment calls on the most complex enforcement decisions.
- Find gaps and risks in current mechanisms and policies, then recommend fixes to product and policy owners.
- Scale deep-dive signals to identify many bad actors and size the scope of an issue.
- Own complex problems end to end, from identification through scaled solution.
- Write documents for partner teams and executives proposing technical solutions and aligning stakeholders.
- Use agentic AI systems to automate workflows and accelerate detection and investigation projects.
What it asks for
- Bachelor's degree.
- Proficiency deriving insights from big data with SQL and processing data with Python, plus AI tools.
- Proven record delivering complex projects across multiple teams.
- Graduate degree in math, statistics, computer science or a related science, or hands-on work in data science, machine learning or data mining (preferred).
- Experience with Amazon Redshift and other AWS technologies (preferred).
- Experience handling confidential and sensitive information (preferred).
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About Amazon

The employer
About Amazon
Marketplaces and commerce · Media and streaming · Seattle, WA · More than 100,000 people · Founded 1994
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