Fraud & Abuse Incident Response Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced Incident Response Manager in Abuse Operations to safeguard our financial ecosystem by leading end-to-end fraud and abuse incident response and driving cross-functional improvements.

You will investigate high-risk accounts, develop response plans, and coordinate with security, data science, legal, and policy teams to deliver timely resolutions while scaling detection capabilities.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead fraud and abuse incident response end-to-end as Incident Response Manager (IRM), coordinating workstreams, investigating high risk activity and accounts, and making actionable mitigation recommendations under pressure.
• Investigate, mitigate, and remediate urgent fraud incidents (e.g., ATO, card testing), 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.
• Partner cross-functionally with security, data science, legal, and policy teams to build agentic response solutions, refine KPIs, and deliver clear incident reporting.
• Mentor teammates, lead key incident response engineering projects, and elevate quality standards across the team.

Skills

Python

SQL

Log analysis

Incident response

Threat intelligence

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Databricks

Trino

PySpark

Pandas

Sci-kit Learn

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced Incident Response Manager in Abuse Operations to safeguard our financial ecosystem by leading end-to-end fraud and abuse incident response and driving cross-functional improvements.

You will investigate high-risk accounts, develop response plans, and coordinate with security, data science, legal, and policy teams to deliver timely resolutions while scaling detection capabilities.