Adversarial Fraud Engineer

Adobe

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San Jose, CA
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10 days ago
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TL;DR · Adversarial Fraud Engineer

JOB TITLE: Adversarial Fraud Engineer — Global Consumer Trust The Adversarial Fraud Engineer joins the Global Consumer Trust team to perform adversarial testing on externally facing products, APIs, and fraud controls. This role involves recreating real-world fraud and abuse attacks to identify control gaps and determine how defenses can be circumvented. You will design and build automated testing tools and scripts to simulate fraud scenarios at scale across account creation, payments, and identity systems. Key responsibilities include testing new fraud prevention measures, documenting attack methodologies, and staying ahead of AI-enabled attack techniques. Required skills include proficiency in Python, REST APIs, HTTP, Git, and SQL. You must also possess experience with automation frameworks, debugging, and interpreting product architecture to evaluate system behavior using logs and telemetry within complex cloud-based environments.

What you'll do

  • Conduct adversarial testing on externally facing products, APIs, and fraud controls to identify potential exploits.
  • Recreate real-world fraud and abuse attacks to map attack paths and identify control gaps.
  • Build automated testing tools and scripts using Python to simulate fraud scenarios at scale.
  • Develop creative test scenarios for account creation, identity, payments, and other customer experiences.
  • Evaluate the efficiency of new and existing fraud prevention measures to strengthen detection.
  • Retest mitigations to validate that identified attack paths have been effectively addressed.
  • Document attack methodologies, findings, and recommendations to build repeatable testing capabilities.
  • Research emerging fraud, abuse, and AI-enabled attack techniques to update product defenses.

What we're looking for

  • Proficiency in Python or a similar scripting/programming language is required.
  • Experience with REST APIs, HTTP, authentication, web applications, and modern cloud-based systems is required.
  • Experience building scripts, tools, or automated workflows to test complex systems and behaviors is required.
  • Proficiency in Git, data/SQL, and interpreting product architecture is required.
  • Strong understanding of fraud, abuse, cybersecurity, adversarial testing, or digital risk is required.
  • Strong analytical skills using SQL, logs, telemetry, or other data sources to evaluate test results is required.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills to translate technical findings into actionable recommendations is required.
  • Experience with JavaScript, cloud services, browser automation, CI/CD, or security testing tools (preferred).

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