Sardine

Sardine

Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention

United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentPlatform EngineeringKafkaLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • You will serve as the technical steward and platform architect for both our Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud engineering teams.
  • This position involves driving technical strategy, optimizing mission-critical infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and assuming broad ownership of a platform that processes massive volumes of data in real-time.
  • Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams, partnering with stakeholders to unify platform strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and a high-throughput rules engine.
  • Design optimal data access patterns, partitioning strategies, and caching layers across our complex, multi-cloud database ecosystem.
  • Develop robust pipelines for massive parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience working with stream processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Flink, SQS, PubSub) in production environments.
  • Advanced proficiency in polyglot persistence, with experience tuning data models across Document, Wide-Column, and Relational databases.
  • Proficiency in communicating complex architectural concepts and driving cross-team consensus.
  • If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.
  • Given the strategic nature of this role, we expect a degree of flexibility for somewhat regular in-person meetings with our leadership team in San Francisco, Berkeley.
  • You can find your productive zone and work from there.

Compensation

  • Generous compensation in cash and equity

Benefits

  • Generous compensation in cash and equity
  • Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
  • Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
  • One-time stipend to set up a home office - desk, chair, screen, etc.
  • Monthly meal stipend
  • Monthly social meet-up stipend
  • Annual health and wellness stipend
  • Annual Learning stipend

Company info

  • Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine's platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.
  • Our culture:
  • We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere
  • We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.
  • We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.
  • Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime.
  • Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations.
  • Sardine's platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide.
  • Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.
  • Remote - USA or Canada - Given the strategic nature of this role, we expect a degree of flexibility for somewhat regular in-person meetings with our leadership team in San Francisco, Berkeley.
  • From Home / Beach / Mountain / Cafe / Anywhere!
  • We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. You can find your productive zone and work from there.
  • About the Role
  • What you'll be doing:
  • Play a pivotal role in shaping engineering culture, mentoring senior engineers, and driving high technical standards from conception to delivery.
  • What you'll need:
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal, or Lead Architect level.
  • Deep expertise in building highly available, distributed systems with strict ultra-low latency.
  • A strong platform engineering mindset focused on reliability, observability, and developer velocity.
  • Benefits we offer:
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