Engineering Manager

About the role

The Abuse Research Group (ARG) Engineering Manager will lead a team of threat intelligence analysts, fraud researchers, and detection engineers to proactively identify and mitigate threats to Stripe. This role involves setting the research agenda, scaling the team through hiring and mentorship, and serving as a technical advisor on complex investigations. The manager will collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate research findings into production-level platform protections.

Responsibilities

• 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

Required skills

• Security engineering
• Threat intelligence
• Fraud detection
• Detection engineering
• OSINT
• Actor attribution
• ATT&CK
• STIX/TAXII
• Fintech
• Team leadership

Nice to have

• Security research
• Financial crime
• Payment systems

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field
• Equivalent experience in Security

About the Company

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.