Senior Incident Response Leader - Fraud & Abuse (Remote)

Stripe; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus or commissions

401(k)

Medical/Dental/Vision

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a seasoned Incident Response Manager (IRM) in Abuse Operations to safeguard its financial ecosystem by leading end-to-end fraud and abuse incident response for Stripe and its merchants.

You will coordinate cross-functional workstreams, develop response runbooks, and drive improvements to automate workflows and scale detection across time zones. This role offers hybrid/remote options with a strong emphasis on collaboration and impact.

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.
• Proven ability to build automated response workflows and threat intelligence.

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.
• As part of incidents, 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

Incident response leadership

Python

SQL

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Databricks

Trino

PySpark

Pandas

Sci-kit Learn

Job description

Stripe is seeking a seasoned Incident Response Manager (IRM) in Abuse Operations to safeguard its financial ecosystem by leading end-to-end fraud and abuse incident response for Stripe and its merchants.

You will coordinate cross-functional workstreams, develop response runbooks, and drive improvements to automate workflows and scale detection across time zones. This role offers hybrid/remote options with a strong emphasis on collaboration and impact.