# Investigator

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: US Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**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, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead.

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 works directly with impacted merchants to resolve technical incidents and policy abuse rapidly.

As an Investigator, 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. Your expertise will be essential in automating response processes through agentic approaches, allowing us to safeguard merchants and neutralize threats with speed and precision.

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 and 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.

- Communicate effectively with legal and policy teams to assess and mitigate risks, demonstrating strong problem-solving under pressure.

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

Requirements:

- 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 and/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, and familiarity with other programming languages.

- 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
- log analysis
- network security
- digital forensics
- incident response

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

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