Hiring: Engineering Manager, Abuse Control Engineering Company: Stripe Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 20:45:19 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : A/B Testing, Stripe, Systems Design About the job Required Skills: •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. Qualifications: •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. •A relevant technical foundation in software engineering, security engineering, application security, anti-abuse engineering, or a closely related field, developed through professional experience, education, or an equivalent path. •Demonstrated capacity to evaluate technical designs, ask effective questions, and guide engineering decisions involving reliability, security, risk, and product tradeoffs. •Demonstrated capacity to create clarity in ambiguous or urgent situations and translate broad risk problems into actionable plans, ownership, and measurable outcomes. •Knowledge of threat modeling, secure systems design, or modern application security practices. •Operational familiarity with API safeguards and abuse controls such as rate limits, authorization checks, input validation, step-up challenges, or related protective mechanisms. •Knowledge of financial-fraud patterns, attacker behavior, attack methods, or the infrastructure used to conduct abuse. Compensation: •$236,000 - $354,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!