ARG Engineering Manager

Leads the Abuse Research Group, overseeing threat intelligence, fraud research, and detection engineering teams that identify and mitigate threats to the platform and merchants. The role requires 10+ years leading technical security or research teams, strong threat intelligence expertise, and familiarity with payments fraud.

About the job

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and retain a team of threat intelligence analysts, fraud researchers, and detection engineers.
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 while maintaining high technical standards.

Requirements

10+ years of experience leading security engineering or research teams, including management of technical individual contributors performing investigative, intelligence, or detection work.
Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience in security.
Experience recruiting, growing, and leading technical teams, including performance management.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including delivering operational or incident-related information to leadership.
Familiarity with fraud and abuse patterns specific to payments and fintech.
Hands-on experience with threat intelligence tradecraft, including OSINT, dark web collection, actor attribution, and structured intelligence frameworks such as ATT&CK and STIX/TAXII.
Strong understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

Nice-to-haves

Background in security research, threat intelligence, or fraud detection engineering.
Experience leading or working on teams that study adversary behavior, build detection systems, or operate intelligence programs.
Experience in payments, fintech, or financial crime.
Technical fluency across threat intelligence, fraud signal development, detection engineering, and OSINT.
Experience managing or growing technical research teams in investigative and ambiguous environments.

Skills

Threat Intelligence, Osint, Dark Web Collection, Actor Attribution, Mitre Att&Ck, Stix/Taxii, Fraud Detection, Detection Engineering, Security Engineering, Incident Response, Api Security, Kyc, Risk Management, Trust & Safety