Sardine

Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention

Remote - USA or CanadaFull-timeGlobal

💰 USD 170,000 - 275,000/yr

📊 Executive🏠 Remote

RemoteRemote work position available

Job Description

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You will serve as the technical steward and platform architect for consumer and business fraud systems. You will drive technical strategy, design and optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and high-throughput rules engines, build real-time feature pipelines and data access patterns, and mentor engineers while owning platform reliability and observability.

Requirements

●7+ years of software engineering experience with proven track record operating at Staff Principal or Lead Architect level
●Deep expertise in building highly available distributed systems with strict ultra-low latency
●Hands-on experience with stream processing frameworks such as Kafka Flink SQS PubSub in production
●Advanced proficiency in polyglot persistence and tuning data models for Document Wide-Column and Relational databases
●Platform engineering mindset focused on reliability observability and developer velocity
●Proficiency communicating complex architectural concepts and driving cross-team consensus

Responsibilities

●Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams and partner with stakeholders to unify platform strategy
●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 a complex multi-cloud database ecosystem
●Develop robust pipelines for massive parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations
●Mentor senior engineers and drive high technical standards from conception to delivery

Benefits & Perks

●Generous compensation in cash and equity
●Early exercise for all options including pre-vested
●Work from anywhere remote-first culture
●Flexible paid time off and year-end break
●Health insurance dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents (US and Canada specific)
●4% matching in 401k / RRSP (US and Canada specific)
●MacBook Pro provided
●One-time home office setup stipend
●Monthly meal stipend
●Monthly social meet-up stipend
●Annual health and wellness stipend
●Annual learning stipend

Tech Stack

mentoringAIbackendFlinkCassandraPub/SubRelational databaseAMLKafkadata modeling