ARG Engineering Manager

Stripe; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 203,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a leader for its Abuse Research Group to proactively identify and mitigate threats to Stripe and its merchants. You will guide threat actor tracking, fraud investigations, and defense across detection pipelines, while scaling the team through hiring and mentoring.

This role requires deep threat intelligence and fraud-detection expertise, with collaboration across Risk, Trust & Safety, Fraud Platform, and Security Engineering to translate findings into protections.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading security engineering or research teams.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field; security background acceptable.
• Experience recruiting, growing, and leading technical teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for leadership reporting.
• Familiarity with fraud and abuse patterns in payments/fintech.
• Hands-on threat intelligence tradecraft: OSINT, dark web collection, attribution, ATT&CK/STIX/TAXII.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Abuse Research Group and set research agenda across threat tracking and fraud investigation.
• Scale the team through hiring, coaching, and mentorship while maintaining technical standards.
• Provide depth and judgment on complex investigations including API key takeovers and account compromise.
• Operationalize findings into production detection rules and automated responses.
• Collaborate with Risk, Trust & Safety, Fraud Platform, and Security Engineering to translate research into protections.
• Coordinate with external stakeholders, including law enforcement, to disrupt high‑impact actors.

Skills

Team leadership

Threat intelligence

Fraud detection

Incident response

Communication to leadership

Adversarial research

Mentoring

Technical advisory

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

MS in Computer Science or Security

Tools

ATT&CK

STIX/TAXII

OSINT

Job description

About Stripe

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. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

Who we are

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. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About The Team

The Abuse Research team is dedicated to proactively hunting for emerging abuse vectors and studying complex attacker behaviors. Rather than just reacting to alerts, the team maps complete abuse paths across Stripe products and external systems to validate novel findings and explain the underlying product conditions that enable fraud. By building continuous abuse tests with agentic testing and related systems, they translate their deep research into actionable threat advisories, strategic control recommendations, and regression scenarios that fortify Stripe’s defenses.

What you’ll do

You will lead the Abuse Research Group (ARG)—a team of threat intelligence analysts, fraud researchers, and detection engineers focused on proactively identifying and mitigating threats to Stripe and our merchants. You will set the research agenda, guiding work across threat actor tracking, hands‑on fraud investigations, merchant ecosystem defense, and the detection pipelines that turn findings into production enforcement. You will scale the team through hiring, coaching, and talent development, while serving as a technical advisor on complex investigations. You will also own ARG's relationships with key partners—including Risk, Trust & Safety, Fraud Platform, and Security Engineering.

• Lead, develop, and retain a team of threat intelligence analysts, fraud researchers, and detection engineers who thrive at the intersection of adversarial research and engineering
• Set and execute the research agenda across threat actor tracking, fraud investigation, merchant ecosystem defense, and automated detection engineering
• Provide technical depth and analytical judgment on complex investigations, including API key takeovers, account compromise campaigns, and KYC bypass techniques
• Operationalize research findings into production‑level detection rules, automated response mechanisms, and cross‑functional escalations
• Collaborate with Risk, Trust & Safety, Fraud Platform, and Security Engineering to translate abuse research into proactive platform protections
• Coordinate with external stakeholders, including law enforcement, to disrupt and attribute high‑impact threat actors
• Coach and mentor individual contributors to support their career development while maintaining high technical standards

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading security engineering or research teams, with a track record of managing technical ICs doing investigative, intelligence, or detection work.
• B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience in Security
• Experience recruiting, growing, and leading technical teams, including performance management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop and deliver operational or incident‑related information to leadership
• Familiarity with fraud and abuse patterns specific to payments and fintech
• Hands‑on experience with threat intelligence tradecraft: OSINT, dark web collection, actor attribution, and working with structured intelligence frameworks (ATT&CK, STIX/TAXII, or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in security research, threat intelligence, or fraud detection engineering — prior experience leading or working in teams that study adversary behavior, build detection systems, or operate intelligence programs; experience in payments, fintech, or financial crime is a strong plus. ^
• Technical fluency across the domains ARG works in — threat intelligence, fraud signal development, detection engineering, and OSINT. ^
• Experience managing or growing technical research teams, ideally in a domain where the work is investigative, ambiguous, and doesn't map cleanly to sprint velocity.

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In‑office expectations

Office‑assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in‑person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on‑sites, meet‑ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $202,900 - $304,300. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

We look forward to hearing from you.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.

The application window will remain open for 100 days after the Job Post is published. However, this opportunity will remain open based on the needs of the business, which may cause the application window to close before or after the 100-day mark.