ARG Engineering Manager

Stripe

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Work type: Remote
Location: South San Francisco, CA
Salary: $202,900–$304,300 / yr
Posted: 32 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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

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TL;DR · ARG Engineering Manager

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As an ARG Engineering Manager, you will lead the Abuse Research Group, a specialized team of threat intelligence analysts, fraud researchers, and detection engineers. You will be responsible for setting the research agenda, managing talent development through hiring and coaching, and serving as a technical advisor on complex investigations like API key takeovers and KYC bypass techniques. Your daily work involves operationalizing findings into production-level detection rules, automated response mechanisms, and cross-functional escalations while collaborating with Risk, Trust & Safety, and Security Engineering teams. You will utilize threat intelligence tradecraft including OSINT, dark web collection, actor attribution, and structured frameworks like ATT&CK or STIX/TAXII. The role focuses on the critical domain of identifying and mitigating fraud and abuse patterns specifically within payments and fintech to protect merchants from sophisticated adversary behaviors.

Skills

Threat Intelligence Fraud Detection Engineering OSINT ATT&CK STIX TAXII Detection Engineering Security Research Fintech Dark Web Collection Actor Attribution TTPs KYC Automated Response Mechanisms

What you'll do

Lead, develop, and retain a team of threat intelligence analysts, fraud researchers, and detection engineers.
Set and execute the research agenda for threat actor tracking, fraud investigation, and merchant ecosystem defense.
Provide technical expertise and judgment on complex investigations like account compromises and KYC bypasses.
Operationalize research findings into production-level detection rules and automated response mechanisms.
Translate abuse research into proactive platform protections by partnering with Risk, Trust & Safety, and Security Engineering teams.
Coordinate with external stakeholders, including law enforcement, to disrupt and attribute high-impact threat actors.
Coach and mentor individual contributors to ensure technical excellence and career growth.

What we're looking for

10+ years of experience leading security engineering or research teams with a track record of managing technical ICs.
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience in Security.
Experience recruiting, growing, and leading technical teams including performance management.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to deliver operational or incident-related information to leadership.
Familiarity with fraud and abuse patterns specific to payments and fintech.
Hands-on experience with threat intelligence tradecraft including OSINT, dark web collection, actor attribution, and structured frameworks.
Strong understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
Background in security research, threat intelligence, or fraud detection engineering; experience in payments or financial crime is a plus (preferred).