Proactive Fraud Threat Hunter & Abuse Research Engineer

Stripe; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking an Abuse Research Engineer to safeguard its financial ecosystem by proactively hunting threats, dissecting fraud vectors, and extracting adversary intelligence. You will run hypothesis-driven threat hunts across internal telemetry and external data, applying FT3 taxonomy to decompose fraud into structured kill chains.

Collaborating with Fraud Ops, Strategy, Risk, Onboarding, and Security, you will integrate threat intelligence, build agentic simulation workflows, and eliminate

Qualifications

• 5+ years of threat intelligence, hunting, or incident response in cyber security, product abuse, or trust domains.
• 5+ years of experience analyzing large datasets to identify anomalies and fraud trends.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Expert proficiency in Python and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Proactive Threat Hunting & Kill Chain Analysis across Stripe systems and external data.
• FT3 Taxonomy: apply and enrich the FT3 framework across datasets and incidents.
• Threat Intelligence & Signal Expansion: integrate threat feeds into engineering workflows.
• Cross-Functional Advisories & Strategic Controls: translate findings into actionable advisories and controls for stakeholders across Fraud, Risk, Onboarding, and Security.
• Agentic Testing & Adversary Simulation: simulate adversary TTPs and validate deployed controls.

Skills

Python

SQL

Education

BS or MS in CS/Cybersecurity/related field

Job description

Stripe is seeking an Abuse Research Engineer to safeguard its financial ecosystem by proactively hunting threats, dissecting fraud vectors, and extracting adversary intelligence. You will run hypothesis-driven threat hunts across internal telemetry and external data, applying FT3 taxonomy to decompose fraud into structured kill chains.

Collaborating with Fraud Ops, Strategy, Risk, Onboarding, and Security, you will integrate threat intelligence, build agentic simulation workflows, and eliminate