# Abuse Investigator

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Seattle
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

The Abuse Operations team is the front-line incident response and remediation function handling active product abuse and fraud impacting Stripe and its merchants. This multi-disciplinary group neutralizes active attacks, gathers requirements for operational tooling, and leads incidents.

You will play a critical role in safeguarding our financial ecosystem by investigating high-risk accounts and identifying complex patterns of fraud during incidents. You will lead incident response for product abuse and fraud events, conducting deep-dive analyses to identify root causes. By collaborating cross-functionally, you will drive improvements that enhance our fraud detection and prevention strategies at scale.

Responsibilities:

- 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.

- Lead incident root cause analyses to identify gaps in current systems and strategies, leveraging the FT3 framework, data-driven model to drive enhancements and process improvements for emerging fraud risks.

- Streamline incident response capabilities, ensuring the tooling and processes are clear, accurate and efficient.

- Work cross-functionally with security, fraud and data science teams to build agentic solutions for responding to abuse incidents at scale.

- Effectively communicate cross-functionally with legal and policy teams to assess and mitigate risks, while demonstrating strong problem-solving under pressure.

- Collaborate effectively with teammates, leading projects, mentoring others, and developing and championing quality standards within the team.

Minimum requirements:

- 10+ years of experience conducting incident response in security, product abuse or trust domains.

- 10+ years experience analyzing large data sets to solve problems and/or building models with a behavioral approach to fraud detection.

- B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field, 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.

- Ability to communicate results clearly and focus on impact.

- Ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment.

Preferred qualifications:

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- incident response
- fraud detection
- data analysis
- log analysis
- network security
- digital forensics

### Nice to have
- adversarial mindset
- engineering
- data processing
- big data processing
- data science

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