# Forward Deployed Security Engineer

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Dublin
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Forward Deployed Security Engineer at Stripe, you will play a critical part in safeguarding the company's financial ecosystem. You will respond to live fraud and abuse incidents, investigate high-risk accounts, and serve as a key bridge between incidents and merchants to help them remediate threats and improve security posture.

## Responsibilities

- Respond to live fraud and abuse incidents as a hands-on security engineer, investigating high-risk activity, neutralizing active attacks, and mitigating security risks across the ecosystem.

- Investigate, mitigate, and remediate urgent fraud incidents, utilizing FT3-mapped detection and signals enrichment to reduce uncertainty and accelerate response.

- Analyze high-risk accounts to identify fraudulent merchants, card testing, account takeovers, and other fraud vectors, classifying them using FT3 to standardize threat intelligence.

- Develop, document, and execute incident response strategies, runbooks, and capabilities to continuously improve fraud and abuse detection and prevention.

- Act as a dedicated technical bridge during and after incidents to work directly with impacted merchants and customers, helping them investigate root causes, remediate vulnerabilities, and secure their accounts.

- Serve as an operational and technical liaison for legal teams, policy partners, and threat intelligence communities.

- Build and nurture strong strategic relationships across external threat intelligence communities, peer working groups, and law enforcement agencies.

## Requirements

- 10+ years of experience leading security or fraud incident response;

- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience;

- Expert knowledge of Python and SQL, and familiarity with other programming languages;

- Existing experience with log analysis, network security, digital forensics, and incident response investigations;

- Proven ability to build automated response workflows, leverage threat intelligence, and make risk mitigation recommendations;

- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of driving cross-functional alignment with minimal oversight;

- Previous work with law enforcement;

- Engagement in threat intelligence sharing communities.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Broad expertise across fraud and abuse mitigation, risk management, product trust, and threat intelligence in a complex platform environment;

- An adversarial mindset, understanding the goals, behaviors, and TTPs of threat actors;

- Experience with engineering, data processing and analysis tools;

- Familiarity with common open-source frameworks for big data processing and/or data science;

- Experience with tactical threat intelligence and/or hunting for sophisticated threat actors in an enterprise environment;

- Ability to proactively challenge the status quo by leveraging data and taking a user-centric approach to address complex product integrity challenges;

- Speaker or participant in external conferences or similar industry engagements.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- log analysis
- network security
- digital forensics
- incident response investigations
- threat intelligence

### Nice to have
- fraud and abuse mitigation
- risk management
- product trust
- adversarial mindset
- big data processing
- data science

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