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The Global Security Organization provides industry-leading cyber-security and business protection services to TikTok globally. Our organization employs four principles that guide our strategic and tactical operations. Firstly, we Champion Transparency & Trust by leading the charge in organizational transparency, prioritizing customer trust, and placing user needs first. Secondly, we aim to maintain Best in Class Global Security by proactively identifying and reducing risks while enabling innovative product development. We constantly work towards a sustainable world-class security capability. Thirdly, we strive to be a Business Catalyst & Enabler by embodying the DNA of technical innovation and ensuring our Global Security operations are fast and agile. Finally, we Drive Empowered & Risk-Informed Decision Making by providing our leaders with the necessary information to make agile decisions based on risk. In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office for 2 to 3 days a week, as directed by their manager. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

We are seeking an experienced investigator for the Insider Trust team in Global Security. You will use your investigative and adversarial mindset to help us identify, detect, and mitigate insider threat at TikTok. You will work within a team of cross-functional subject matter experts to data mine threat actor abuse tactics, develop predictive models, and conduct comprehensive proactive and reactive investigations using analytical skills, subject-matter expertise, and domain experience. The Senior Investigator will leverage data analysis skills to analyze detections and deepdive into indicators of compromise. You will develop actionable recommendations, and continually help iterate detections to increase the fidelity of team detections.

Responsibilities
- Identify deceptive behaviors of threat actors, collect and analyze signals through data analysis, and work with engineers to improve detection models and develop data driven mitigation strategies. Develop and test predictive models of feature abuse.
- Use all available internal and external data sources to produce detections, actionable intelligence, and investigations around insider threats.
- Proactively monitor, triage, investigate alerts and collaborate with the team on pattern identification.
- Apply structured analytic techniques, data science, and intelligence tradecraft to perform analysis of large attribute, ideational, and relational data sets to identify insider threat actors and investigate indicators of compromise.
- Work cross-functionally with product managers, program managers, security, operations, policy, and communications teams to address gaps in current threat response processes such as detection and mitigation.
- Collaborate with a team of global experts that respond to known threat actors and proactively build and tailor queries to discover and identify potential threats.
- Conduct open source intelligence (OSINT) on emerging insider risks to help fuel proactive detection of risks.
- Author reports on regional trends and patterns and communicate findings, risks, and gaps to both technical and non-technical program stakeholders.
- Manage insider risk incidents per region and as needed for the global team and escalate incidents.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience should include discovering and correlating high-harm threat actors, networks, and organizations across global markets by performing quantitative and qualitative analysis of large data sets including attribute, ideational, and relational data.
- Intermediate understanding of descriptive statistics.
- Proficient in SQL or other relational database language.
- Able to create advanced data visualizations.
- Ability to prioritize risks to the business in real-time.
- Excellent investigative, analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. ITPM or CFE credentials preferred.
- Experience with Insider Risk schemes, UAM, SIEM, DLP and UEBA technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Security, other relevant fields, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience conducting data-driven investigations, working in collaboration with multiple business stakeholders, and establishing SOPs for improved ways of working.
- Experience in Security or Security adjacent domains such as Trust and Safety.
- Identify anomalous behavior and determine ways for further exploring new research leads.
- Experience conducting subject and witness interviews in a corporate setting to verify information and corroborate evidence.
- 2+ Years in project management to ensure impactful output, achieve stakeholder alignment, and manage competing priorities.
- Critical thinking skills with the ability to apply theorems or analytical techniques to discover insights that are not readily apparent
- Experience conducting Insider Risk investigations, authoring reports of investigation, and seeing cases through litigation.
- Demonstrates excellent time management, prioritization, negotiation, shows initiative in driving investigations and mitigating risks, and excellent interpersonal relations.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $147200 - $269800 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.