Abuse Investigator

Location: On-site in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Relocation support includes a flight and temporary housing.

Salary: Competitive salary in USD.

Company

hirify.global builds generative AI video creation products and next-generation creative tools for millions of users and major brands.

What you will do

• Investigate account-abuse rings from flagged accounts or cost anomalies through cluster identification, linkage analysis, economics, and recommended enforcement actions.
• Connect payment instruments, IP and ASN patterns, email families, registration bursts, behavioral signals, and automation fingerprints while separating evidence from coincidence.
• Prepare defensible, account-level evidence packages for auditors, payment networks, customers, and Legal.
• Own the recurring abuse-loss number and distinguish COGS burned, revenue at risk, revenue reversed, and cash refunded.
• Monitor detection systems, investigate broken data pipelines or vendor signals, and identify emerging abuse patterns.
• Partner with the antifraud data scientist, Payments, Support, and Finance using raw payment, usage, and identity data.

Requirements

• 2+ years of investigative or risk analytics experience in fraud, abuse, trust and safety, AML, chargebacks, gaming, or marketplace integrity.
• Strong SQL skills, including self-joins, window functions, cohort replay, and joining payments, usage, and identity data across messy keys.
• Working-level Python for analysis, including pandas, notebooks, and basic graph work.
• Investigative judgment, evidentiary discipline, and the ability to distinguish provable abuse from legitimate negative-margin usage.
• Understanding of unit economics, compute costs, gross margin, revenue reversals, and false positives.
• Clear written and spoken English at B2+ level; willingness to work onsite in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, marketplaces, gaming, crypto, betting, trust and safety, chargebacks, disputes, AML, product analytics, or BI.

Culture & Benefits

• High autonomy within a flat structure.
• Close collaboration across antifraud, Payments, Support, and Finance.
• Competitive salary in USD.
• Participation in the company stock option program.
• Relocation support with flight and temporary housing.
• Fast career growth in a rapidly scaling generative AI company.

Hiring process

• 30-minute first interview.
• 60-minute business case, followed by a take-home assignment using real-shaped data, expected to take approximately 10–12 hours over 7 days.
• 60-minute team interview and a paid one-month onsite trial.