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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 10 days Stripe's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 3% of Stripe's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Stripe
- low 0 stale, 52 reposted of 633 open
- Hiring momentum
- 892 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Stripe's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Stripe.
About this role
As a Forward Deployed Security Engineer at Stripe, you will actively respond to live fraud and abuse incidents, investigating high-risk activities and neutralizing threats to safeguard the financial ecosystem. Your role involves collaborating with impacted merchants to improve their security posture, developing incident response strategies, and serving as a liaison with legal teams and threat intelligence communities.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Stripe as an employer.
What you need
- 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
- Existing experience with log analysis, network security, digital forensics, and incident response investigations
- Proven ability to build automated response workflows, leverage threat intelligence, and make risk mitigation recommendations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of driving cross-functional alignment with minimal oversight
Nice to have
- Broad expertise across fraud and abuse mitigation, risk management, product trust, and threat intelligence in a complex platform environment
- An adversarial mindset, understanding the goals, behaviors, and TTPs of threat actors
- Experience with engineering, data processing and analysis tools
- Familiarity with common open-source frameworks for big data processing and/or data science
- Experience with tactical threat intelligence and/or hunting for sophisticated threat actors in an enterprise environment
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role involves high-pressure incident response
- Requires strong cross-functional communication skills
- Work is primarily across European time zones, which may affect work-life balance
Summarised from Stripe's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Stripe on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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