Technical 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.
Leads containment of major global high-risk escalations on a large social video platform, using specialized tools, policies and tactics to resolve incidents quickly. The Rapid Response team also aims to spot emerging risks before they spread and reduce reliance on manual review through automation and AI.
What you'd do
- Lead trust and safety incident management and coordinate across functions during crises.
- Analyze large-scale data and build dashboards to monitor risk and platform health.
- Prototype and scale scripts, automations and AI agents for trust and safety problems.
- Run post-incident reviews and turn lessons into playbooks, policies, processes and tooling.
- Turn frontline signals into product, policy and detection improvements with stakeholders.
What it asks for
- Bachelor's degree with 4+ years in trust and safety, risk, escalations, crisis management or similar operational risk roles.
- Strong data skills in SQL, Python or similar scripting languages.
- Hands-on experience designing and launching tools, processes or systems from scratch.
- Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Understanding of trust and safety challenges and global online safety legal and regulatory frameworks.
- Experience in a technology or digital platform environment (preferred).
- Solid project management and thought leadership skills (preferred).
Worth knowing
- Weekend work on a rotational basis.
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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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