Full job description
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.
Abuse Control Engineering (ACE) is Stripe’s rapid-response technical defense and control incubator. When urgent abuse vectors emerge, ACE bridges the gap using real attacker telemetry to prototype, test, and deploy software safeguards before vulnerabilities can be exploited at scale. We partner closely with Fraud, Risk and Product Engineering to run rigorous experiments, balancing aggressive risk mitigation against legitimate user conversion. Operating as both a strike team and an incubator, ACE builds automated regression suites in partnership with Abuse Research to permanently block threat recurrence and seamlessly transfers mature controls to long-term product owners across Stripe.
As an Abuse Control Engineer on the Abuse Control Engineering (ACE) team, you will design, prototype, and incubate technical defenses that safeguard Stripe’s financial ecosystem against complex, cross-cutting abuse vectors.
Where emerging threat patterns identify Stripe product weaknesses, ACE steps in to rapidly build and experiment with technical safeguards. Driven by empirical evidence and Stripe’s FT3 (Fraud Taxonomy 3.0) framework, you will translate threat intelligence into hard technical control requirements (e.g., API rate-limiting, step-up challenges, parameter validation, pre-debit holds). You will carefully balance security and product velocity, running experiments to evaluate risk reduction against user conversion impact. Managing controls through a strict incubation lifecycle, you will build automated regression suites to prevent recurrence and partner with native product teams to hand off mature, long-term defenses.
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.