Senior Fraud and Risk Engineer

The role

You will own and build the risk infrastructure that powers the payments platform. You will design, implement, and scale fraud detection systems across a growing portfolio of merchants.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the fraud risk engine by integrating Sift ML scoring and Sardine rules
• Design and maintain a scalable rules architecture
• Tune thresholds and features across merchant segments
• Build feedback loops between manual review decisions, chargeback data, and model retraining
• Partner with risk operations to translate fraud patterns into automated rules
• Lead onboarding of new merchants into the risk stack
• Monitor and improve key fraud KPIs
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and operations

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience in fraud/risk engineering within fintech, payments, marketplaces, acquiring processors, or related technology environments
• Hands-on experience integrating and operating third-party fraud detection platforms such as Sift, Sardine, Forter, Featurespace, Feedzai, or Kount
• Experience designing and supporting fraud systems for multi-merchant or marketplace environments
• Strong understanding of payments infrastructure, transaction flows, fraud vectors, and rules engine design
• Deep operational fraud expertise including manual review workflows, chargeback management, and false-positive analysis
• Ability to own fraud and risk systems end-to-end
• Highly analytical and data-driven

Nice to have

• Familiarity with PCI compliance, 3DS, and PSP-level risk tooling
• Experience with high-risk verticals such as gaming, crypto, or digital goods

Benefits

• Health coverage: 100% of employee premiums on base plan and 75% of dependent premiums
• 21 days PTO plus applicable company holidays
• 401(k) with all plan administration fees covered
• Meaningful equity
• New MacBook Air and equipment
• Annual budget for workspace, tools, and professional development
• Monthly wellness reimbursement
• Annual global offsite

About the company

Breeze is building the AI-powered infrastructure layer for global commerce. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Multicoin Capital, and The Chainsmokers.