Senior Fraud And Risk Engineer

Sequoia Capital

New York City, New York, USA
Remote
Fraud risk engine
Sift ml scoring
Sardine rules
Own and build the risk infrastructure that powers our payments platform, designing, implementing, and scaling fraud detection systems

Job Summary

  • Own and build the risk infrastructure that powers our payments platform, designing, implementing, and scaling fraud detection systems.
  • Design and maintain a scalable rules architecture, including category-level defaults, merchant-specific overrides, velocity checks, and blocklists.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and operations to ensure risk systems are scalable and deeply integrated into the platform.

Matching Summary

Own and build the risk infrastructure that powers our payments platform, designing, implementing, and scaling fraud detection systems.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • fraud risk engine
  • Sift ML scoring
  • Sardine rules
  • rules architecture design
  • chargeback analysis
  • payments risk systems

Nice-to-have

  • builder's mindset
  • continuous learning
  • fast-paced environment
  • high-risk verticals experience

Key Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience
  • fraud/risk engineering experience
  • integrating fraud detection platforms
  • multi-merchant or marketplace environments
  • payments infrastructure understanding
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Work Rights

Not specified

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