Abuse Investigator
Stripe provides payment infrastructure and APIs for businesses to accept online payments, manage subscriptions, and process stablecoin transactions.
Maintainer signals as of 9/23/2026
Funding history
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About Stripe
Stripe helps businesses accept payments online and in person, embed financial services, power custom revenue models, and automate financial operations. The platform processes traditional and stablecoin payments, manages subscriptions, handles invoicing, provides fraud prevention, facilitates global commerce, and offers embedded finance tools through a unified API.
Skills
About the Role
You will investigate, mitigate, and remediate urgent product-abuse and fraud incidents. You will analyze high-risk accounts, identify fraud patterns and root causes, improve response tools and processes, and work with security, fraud, data science, legal, and policy stakeholders to reduce risk at scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years of incident-response experience in security, product abuse, or trust domains.
- 5+ years of experience analyzing large datasets to solve problems and/or building behavioral fraud-detection models.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Expert knowledge of Python and SQL.
- Experience with log analysis, network security, digital forensics, and incident-response investigations.
- Ability to communicate results clearly and focus on impact.
- Ability to reduce risk in a complex environment.
- Understanding of threat-actor goals, behaviors, and TTPs.
- Experience with engineering, data-processing, and analysis tools such as Databricks and Trino.
- Familiarity with big-data processing and data-science frameworks such as PySpark, Pandas, and Scikit-learn.
- Experience with tactical threat intelligence and/or hunting sophisticated threat actors in an enterprise environment.
Responsibilities
- Investigate, mitigate, and remediate urgent fraud incidents using FT3-mapped detection and signal enrichment.
- Analyze high-risk accounts to identify and classify fraudulent merchants, card testing, account takeovers, and other fraud vectors using FT3.
- Lead incident root-cause analyses and drive system, strategy, and process improvements for emerging fraud risks.
- Streamline incident-response tooling and processes.
- Work with security, fraud, and data science teams to build agentic solutions for abuse-incident response.
- Communicate with legal and policy teams to assess and mitigate risks.
- Lead projects, mentor teammates, and champion quality standards.
Benefits
- Equity
- Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
- Retirement plans
- Health benefits
- Wellness stipends