Investigator

Stripe

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$144,400–$216,600 / yr
Posted
29 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $180k
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This role pays less than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $159,125–$243,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $180k versus about $201k 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 · Investigator

As an Investigator within the Abuse Operations team, you will serve as a front-line responder tackling active product abuse and fraud. You will investigate high-risk accounts, identify complex patterns like account takeovers and card testing, and conduct deep-dive root cause analyses to improve detection strategies at scale. Your daily work involves utilizing the FT3 framework to classify threats, streamlining response capabilities, and collaborating with security, data science, and legal teams to build agentic solutions for automated responses. The role requires expert knowledge of Python and SQL, experience in log analysis, network security, and digital forensics. You will analyze large datasets using a behavioral approach to fraud detection to protect the financial ecosystem. This position addresses critical product integrity challenges by neutralizing threats and mitigating risks within a complex environment through data-driven model enhancements and cross-functional collaboration.

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 them using standard threat intelligence frameworks.
  • 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

  • 3+ years of experience conducting incident response in security, product abuse, or trust domains.
  • 3+ 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 big data frameworks like PySpark and Pandas (preferred).

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