Stripe
Fraud Architect
SF-HQ, Chicago, New York, US-Remote +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- SF-HQ, Chicago, New York, US-Remote
US - Experience
- 8+ years in a technical role with substantial direct user engagement.
About the job
Owns fraud-prevention strategy for a portfolio of strategic Stripe users, investigating risk, optimizing Radar protections, and turning findings into verified controls and product improvements.
What you'll do
- Maintain account risk baselines, threat models, and prevention plans; conduct regular risk reviews and follow actions through implementation and verification.
- Investigate fraud patterns, Radar behavior, integrations, and signals; recommend and validate rules, thresholds, and other protections.
- Coordinate incident analysis and product feedback with users and internal teams, and build reusable playbooks and prevention frameworks.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in a technical role with substantial direct user engagement at a payments company, fintech, risk management platform, or fraud-prevention provider.
- Hands-on experience investigating fraud or abuse and translating findings into controls or user guidance; depth in payment fraud and related abuse or dispute topics.
- Technical understanding of API integrations, data and signal flows, machine-learning-based risk decisions, and rule systems.
- SQL proficiency and experience using Python, R, or a similar language for investigations and control evaluation; experience managing user relationships and driving recommendations through implementation.
Nice to have
- Experience with Stripe Radar or similar platforms such as Forter, Sift, Ravelin, or Signifyd.
- Experience tuning fraud rules in production or partnering on model and signal improvements; familiarity with device intelligence, alternative payment methods, or usage-based business models.
Tools
Radar, SQL, Python, R, Forter, Sift, Ravelin, Signifyd
AI focus
Applies practical understanding of machine-learning-based risk decisions and collaborates with product, engineering, and fraud data science teams on model or signal gaps; no AI development is stated.
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