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Staff Engineer

Sardine20 days ago
Remote
United States, Canada
$190,000 - $275,000/yearly
Staff

Top Benefits

Generous equity compensation
Remote-first culture, work from anywhere
Unlimited paid time off, minimum 2 weeks mandatory vacation

About the role

Who you are

  • 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

What the job involves

  • 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
  • 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

Benefits

  • Generous equity compensation
  • Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
  • Unlimited paid time off and minimum 2 weeks/year of mandatory vacation
  • 100% of health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and 50% for dependents
  • 4% matching in 401k
  • Company-wide offsites, the last one was at Miami
  • MacBook Pro delivered to your door
  • One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, monitors, etc
  • Monthly meal stipend
  • Annual fitness allowance
  • Unlimited access to an expert financial advisory

About Sardine

Financial Services
51-200

Sardine is a leader in financial crime prevention. Using proprietary device intelligence and behavior biometrics, Sardine applies machine learning to detect and stop fraud before it happens. The platform includes tools for identity verification, fraud prevention and investigation, AML monitoring, and case management. Over 250 companies use Sardine to prevent fake account creation, social engineering scams, account takeovers, bot attacks, payment fraud, and money laundering. For more information, visit www.sardine.ai.

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