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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
173 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$190,400–$285,600
across 171 roles with salary data.
Specialist Solutions Architect, Radar (Fraud/Risk) joins the Radar team as a domain expert focused on fraud and risk management. You will serve as a subject matter expert to accelerate global opportunities, collaborate with sales teams to drive revenue, and provide critical insights to product and engineering teams regarding market trends. Your daily work involves developing deep relationships with customer leaders, conducting workshops, creating reference architectures, and building reusable assets for the broader organization. You will navigate complex problems involving AI-powered detection, rule management, machine learning model tuning, and manual review optimization. The role requires expertise in fraud ecosystems including account takeover, first-party misuse, and policy abuse. Key technical competencies include understanding software architecture patterns, RESTful APIs, device fingerprinting, identity verification, bot mitigation, and graph-based analysis to protect businesses from various forms of financial loss.
What does a Solutions Architect earn in California?
Median $235750 from 45 postings across 8 companies.
Act as the primary subject matter expert for the Stripe Radar product suite to accelerate global opportunities.
Advise on fraud and risk management trends including AI detection, account takeover, and policy abuse.
Develop technical expertise in rule management, machine learning model tuning, and manual review optimization.
Create reference architectures and reusable assets to scale the capabilities of the broader go-to-market team.
Lead strategy and manage key relationships for large, complex customers during the sales process.
Serve as the "Voice of the Customer" to influence product roadmap and feature prioritization with engineering teams.
Resolve complex technical issues by collaborating directly with Stripe's engineering department.
Provide tools, training, and technical guidance to the sales team to qualify leads and close deals.
What we're looking for
7+ years of experience in pre-sales, technical consulting, product, or risk strategy roles focused on e-commerce fraud prevention, risk management, or trust and safety.
Deep working knowledge of the fraud and risk ecosystem, including payment fraud, account takeover, first-party misuse, and policy abuse.
Demonstrated knowledge of risk management architectures involving rules engines, machine learning models, and manual review queues.
Strong knowledge of signals for fraud detection such as device/IP data, behavioral biometrics, identity verification, and graph-based analysis.
Strong knowledge of software engineering and architecture patterns to understand how various technologies and systems interact.
Outstanding communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications.
Experience with processor-agnostic fraud solutions and multi-processor payment environments.