Abuse Investigator

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
Atlanta, GAChicago, ILNew York, NYSeattle, WASan Francisco, CA
Salary
$188,400–$282,600 / yr
Posted
24 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $236k
$124k most similar roles pay here $300k

This role pays more than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $142,450–$208,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $236k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology

Stripe currently has 99 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $203,600–$288,000 across 96 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Abuse Investigator

As an Abuse Investigator within the Abuse Operations team, you will serve as a front-line responder tasked with neutralizing active product abuse and fraud. You will investigate high-risk accounts, identify complex patterns like account takeovers and card testing, and perform deep-dive root cause analyses to improve detection strategies. Your daily work involves mitigating urgent incidents using FT3-mapped signals, streamlining response processes, and collaborating cross-functionally with security, data science, and legal teams to build agentic solutions for scale. The role requires expert knowledge of Python and SQL, experience in log analysis, network security, and digital forensics. You will utilize a behavioral approach to fraud detection while analyzing large datasets to solve problems. This position addresses the critical challenge of protecting a financial ecosystem by identifying fraudulent merchants and proactively mitigating risks within a complex environment.

What you'll do

  • Investigate and remediate urgent fraud incidents such as account takeovers and card testing.
  • Analyze high-risk accounts to identify fraudulent merchants and classify threats using standardized taxonomies.
  • Conduct root cause analyses to identify system gaps and drive improvements for emerging fraud risks.
  • Streamline incident response capabilities by improving the accuracy and efficiency of internal tooling and processes.
  • Build agentic solutions in collaboration with security and data science teams to automate responses at scale.
  • Communicate with legal and policy teams to assess and mitigate risks during high-pressure incidents.
  • Lead projects and mentor team members while championing quality standards for fraud detection.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience conducting incident response in security, product abuse, or trust domains.
  • 10+ years of experience analyzing large data sets to solve problems or building models with a behavioral approach to fraud detection.
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Expert knowledge of Python and SQL, along with familiarity with other programming languages.
  • Experience with log analysis, network security, digital forensics, and incident response investigations.
  • Ability to communicate results clearly and think creatively about reducing risk in complex environments.
  • An adversarial mindset understanding the goals and TTPs of threat actors (preferred).
  • Experience with engineering/data tools (Databricks, Trino) or open-source frameworks like PySpark and Pandas (preferred).

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