# Forward Deployed Security Engineer

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Dublin, Ireland
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Log Analysis, Network Security, Digital Forensics, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Databricks, Trino, Pyspark, pandas, scikit-learn, Fraud Detection, Risk Management, Law Enforcement
**Posted:** 2026-09-06

> Leads live fraud and abuse incident response, investigates high-risk accounts, and helps merchants remediate security threats. Requires 10+ years of security or fraud incident-response experience, expert Python and SQL skills, and expertise in forensics, threat intelligence, and network security.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Respond to live fraud and abuse incidents as a forward-deployed security engineer, investigating high-risk activity, neutralizing active attacks, and mitigating security risks.
- Investigate, mitigate, and remediate urgent fraud incidents, including account takeovers and card testing, using Fraud Taxonomy 3.0 detection and signal enrichment.
- Analyze high-risk accounts to identify fraudulent merchants, card testing, account takeovers, and other fraud vectors; classify findings using Fraud Taxonomy 3.0.
- Develop, document, and execute incident-response strategies, runbooks, and capabilities to improve fraud and abuse detection and prevention.
- Partner directly with impacted merchants and customers to investigate root causes, remediate vulnerabilities, and secure accounts.
- Serve as an operational and technical liaison for legal teams, policy partners, and threat-intelligence communities.
- Build relationships with external threat-intelligence communities, peer working groups, and law-enforcement agencies.
- Build automated response workflows, leverage threat intelligence, and recommend risk mitigations.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of experience leading security or fraud incident response.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- Expert knowledge of Python and SQL; familiarity with other programming languages.
- Experience with log analysis, network security, digital forensics, and incident-response investigations.
- Ability to drive cross-functional alignment with minimal oversight.
- Previous work with law enforcement.
- Engagement in threat-intelligence sharing communities.

## Nice-to-haves
- Broad expertise in fraud and abuse mitigation, risk management, product trust, and threat intelligence in a complex platform environment.
- Understanding of threat-actor goals, behaviors, and tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Experience with Databricks, Trino, or similar engineering, data-processing, and analysis tools.
- Familiarity with PySpark, Pandas, scikit-learn, or similar open-source data-processing and data-science frameworks.
- Experience with tactical threat intelligence or hunting sophisticated threat actors in an enterprise environment.
- Experience speaking or participating in external conferences or similar industry engagements.

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