Remote Position
[Remote] Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sardine is hiring a Staff Engineer to serve as technical steward and platform architect for its Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud engineering teams. The role drives technical strategy, optimizes real-time infrastructure, mentors engineers, and owns a high-volume data 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- Equity
- Remote-first culture; work from wherever helps you do your best work, flexible within the country you’re hired in, with a home base in that country. Somewhat regular in-person meetings with the leadership team in San Francisco and Berkeley are expected.
- 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
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