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Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention

Sardine· Engineering
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Remote$190k - $275kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Technical steward and platform architect for Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud engineering teams, driving technical strategy, optimizing mission-critical infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and owning a real-time data processing platform.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams, partnering 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 our complex, multi-cloud database ecosystem.
  • Develop robust pipelines for massive parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations.
  • Play a pivotal role in shaping engineering culture, mentoring senior engineers, and driving high technical standards from conception to delivery.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A strong platform engineering mindset focused on reliability, observability, and developer velocity.
  • Proficiency in communicating complex architectural concepts and driving cross-team consensus.

Skills

Required:Low-latency distributed systemsStream processingPolyglot persistencePlatform engineeringArchitectural communication

Benefits

  • 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 delivered to your door
  • 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
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Sardine

The AI risk platform for fraud, credit, and compliance

Sardine’s AI platform is at the core of enterprise risk and fraud workflows, allowing them to consolidate vendors and improve operational efficiency. Hundreds of enterprises in over 70 countries trust Sardine to stop fraud in real-time, streamline BSA/AML compliance, and unify data across risk teams.

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