Engineering Manager, Abuse Control Engineering

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 the Engineering Manager for Abuse Control Engineering, you will lead a team responsible for closing urgent, cross-product defense gaps and incubating controls until they are ready for long-term ownership. You will be accountable for the team’s technical direction, people leadership, hiring, coaching, and cross-functional execution.

You will help the team turn attacker evidence into clear technical priorities, guide the design and evaluation of safeguards, and ensure that decisions account for both risk reduction and the experience of legitimate users. You will also establish disciplined incubation and handoff practices so that successful controls move to the appropriate product teams with clear ownership, documentation, criteria, and timelines.

• Set technical direction: Define and communicate the team’s technical strategy and priorities for identifying cross-product abuse gaps, incubating controls, and preventing the recurrence of mitigated threats.

• Lead and develop the team: Hire, manage, coach, and support engineers; provide clear expectations and feedback; and create opportunities for engineers to expand their technical judgment, leadership, and impact.

• Guide evidence-based decisions: Ensure that attacker evidence, product context, and measurable outcomes inform technical abuse requirements, control designs, and investment decisions.

• Drive secure control design: Partner with Application Security and product engineering teams to develop safeguards that are resilient, appropriately scoped, and compatible with the systems in which they operate.

• Oversee experimentation: Guide experiments that assess risk reduction and the effect of controls on legitimate user conversion, helping the team make informed tradeoffs and refine its approach.

• Build durable defenses: Ensure the team develops regression tests and other mechanisms that can detect whether previously mitigated abuse patterns recur.

• Manage control incubation: Establish clear success measures, operational expectations, documentation, destination owners, handoff criteria, and target dates for incubated controls.

• Complete ownership handoffs: Hold the team and its partners accountable for transferring successful controls to the product teams that permanently own the relevant surfaces, except where a control is intentionally maintained as a durable capability serving multiple products.

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