Ramp
Software Engineer, Fraud & Identity
$168K–$285K
New York, NY (HQ) · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Mar 27, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent).
About the job
Build backend systems across fraud prevention, user and identity management, and account security, from detection and enforcement to authentication and safe account access.
What you'll do
- Build fraud detection and prevention services and tools for rapid containment, including account locks and payment freezes.
- Improve account-takeover protections and identity foundations, and operate systems with monitoring, alerting, and incident playbooks.
- Lead end-to-end delivery and partner with Fraud Ops, Risk Strategy, Security, Product, and Data, using outcome metrics to guide iteration.
What they ask for
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals, including APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, and reliability.
- Experience building data-informed detection or decisioning systems, or strong interest in learning the domain.
- Experience operating production systems, including debugging, incident response, and improving on-call quality through instrumentation and automation.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills and comfort working with product and operations partners.
Nice to have
- Experience in fraud, risk, identity, authentication, authorization, abuse prevention, or security engineering.
- Familiarity with payments rails, card transaction risk, account security patterns, or internal operations tools.
Pay
$168K – $284.9K USD base salary
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