Webint Automation Analyst

ActiveFence is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. By relying on ActiveFence’s end-to-end solution, Trust & Safety teams – of all sizes – can keep users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety, disinformation, fraud, hate speech, terror, nudity, and more. Using cutting-edge AI and a team of world-class subject-matter experts to continuously collect, analyze, and contextualize data, ActiveFence ensures that in an ever-changing world, customers are always two steps ahead of bad actors. As a result, Trust & Safety teams can be proactive and provide maximum protection to users across a multitude of abuse areas, in 70+ languages. Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors such as CRV and Norwest, ActiveFence has raised $100M to date; employs 300 people worldwide, and has contributed to the online safety of billions of users across the globe.

Webint Automation Analyst

Are you a Python master? Do you have a creative mind? Do you like challenges? Do you have a hacker-like mentality? Do you enjoy Webint?

Join our Extremism Department and help us detect at scale malicious activities in the fields of counter-terrorism, hate speech, child safety, and many more.

Roles & Responsibilities:​​

• Independently build, maintain, and use various automation tools that will support gathering data from all corners of the internet
• Process and analyze large amounts of data for report generation and other deliverables for our customers
• Work with internal stakeholders on automated data collection, product, research, etc.
• Build a collection strategy that will not only address the current requirements, but will also demonstrate innovation and forward-thinking regarding future goals and needs

Requirements:

Must haves:

• Experience in Python development or engineering, particularly web scraping - a must
• Proficiency in using libraries like requests or Beautiful Soup understanding of APIs, network protocols, and data parsing techniques
• High analytical and decision-making skills
• Out-of-the-box thinking, creative mind
• Multitasking abilities, being able to deliver under tight deadlines
• Fluent English (reading, writing)
• Ability to work independently while being a team player
• Proactive problem-solving skills

Nice-to-haves:

• Previous experience in counter-terrorism, hate speech, or child safety
• Previous experience in building ad-hoc OSINT tools
• Familiarity with advanced web scraping libraries and tools such as Scrapy, Selenium for more sophisticated scraping tasks
• Knowledge of asynchronous scraping techniques for efficient data collection
• Previous experience with tools such as Postman or Insomnia for API development
• Previous Webint and/or intelligence experience