AI-powered fraud detection and chargeback protection for ecommerce
Riskified operates a real-time fraud and chargeback protection platform serving high-volume ecommerce merchants. The tech stack reveals a company built for streaming decisioning: Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, and Spark Streaming form the backbone, with Databricks and CockroachDB handling feature compute and identity data at scale. Active adoption of Kubernetes ecosystem tools (EKS, Karpenter, Istio, Argo CD) signals infrastructure modernization, while hiring momentum skews sales-forward—reflecting a shift from product-led to merchant-led go-to-market as they tackle chargebacks and retention at enterprise scale.
Notable leadership hires: Merchant Health Director
Riskified provides fraud detection and guaranteed chargeback protection for online retailers. The platform analyzes individual transaction and identity patterns in real-time to approve or decline orders, fight policy abuse, and reduce costly chargebacks. Publicly listed (NYSE: RSKD), the company serves large brands and mid-market ecommerce merchants across seven countries. Operations span engineering, data science, sales enablement, and merchant success—structured around three core problem areas: preventing fraud, protecting against chargebacks, and maximizing merchant retention through customer onboarding and upsell identification.
Apache Kafka, Spark, Databricks, CockroachDB, Redis, and Aerospike power the streaming and identity layer. Python, SQL, R, and Scala handle data pipelines (Airflow, Flink). AWS SQS, EKS, Kubernetes, and Istio manage infrastructure. React and Node.js front the API surface.
Riskified has active hiring in the United States, Israel, Australia, Japan, Brazil, Portugal, and China.
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