Stripe
Abuse Investigator
Seattle, San Francisco, New York City +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, San Francisco, New York City
US - Experience
- 10+ years for each of the two stated experience areas.
- Education
- B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Investigates high-risk accounts and leads response to fraud and product-abuse incidents, identifying root causes and improving detection, prevention, and response processes.
What you'll do
- Investigate, mitigate, and remediate urgent fraud incidents, including account takeovers and card testing.
- Lead incident root-cause analyses and improve fraud detection, tooling, and response processes.
- Collaborate with security, fraud, data science, legal, and policy teams on scalable incident-response solutions.
What they ask for
- 10+ years conducting incident response in security, product abuse, or trust domains.
- 10+ years analyzing large data sets to solve problems and/or building behavioral fraud-detection models.
- B.S. or M.S. 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.
Nice to have
- Adversarial mindset and understanding of threat actors’ goals, behaviors, and TTPs.
- Experience with Databricks, Trino, PySpark, Pandas, Sci-kit Learn, or tactical threat intelligence and threat hunting.
Tools
Python, SQL, FT3, Databricks, Trino, PySpark, Pandas, Sci-kit Learn
AI focus
Build agentic solutions to automate and scale responses to abuse incidents.
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