Fraud Architect

Stripe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Fraud Architect to join the Fraud team in San Francisco. You will be the fraud and risk specialist embedded in strategic user relationships for a small named portfolio, helping customers optimize Radar and build proactive prevention strategies.

You’ll translate complex fraud signals into practical decisions, balancing risk with growth. This role blends analytical rigor, deep investigation, and strong product judgment to protect legitimate activity while enabling scale.

Qualifications

• Experience in fraud analytics or risk management.
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision making.
• Ability to communicate complex risks to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Embed with named customers to understand risk and prevent fraud.
• Collaborate with Radar to fine-tune signals and rules.

Job description

Who we are

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.

About the team

The Fraud Architect team helps Stripe’s largest and most complex users manage fraud and abuse across the customer lifecycle. We combine deep fraud expertise, technical investigation, and product knowledge to help users understand emerging threats, optimize Radar, and implement durable prevention strategies tailored to their business and risk tolerance. Our goal is to enable users’ growth by proactively reducing fraud while protecting legitimate customer activity and turning frontline insights into better products and defenses.

What you’ll do

Stripe users face fraud and abuse across the customer lifecycle, including payment fraud, free-trial farming, multi-account abuse, and usage-based billing exploitation. They need a partner who understands their business, anticipates emerging threats, and helps them put effective protections in place as their business and the threat landscape evolve. As a member of our Fraud Architect team, you’ll be the fraud and risk specialist embedded in strategic user relationships for a small portfolio of named users, acting as a technical extension of their teams. You’ll help users get more from Radar, build a proactive prevention strategy, and turn complex fraud problems into practical decisions. This role combines analytical rigor, deep fraud investigation, and product judgment. You’ll develop a deep understanding of how Radar scores and classifies transactions, how integrations and available signals affect its d