Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Staff
- Employment
- Full-time
Open to CA, US only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Staff-level backend/platform engineer for fraud prevention systems. Needs 7+ years in software engineering, distributed low-latency systems, stream processing, and multi-model databases. Must be located in the USA or Canada and flexible for occasional meetings near San Francisco/Berkeley.
Core skills
Required skills
Who we are:
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.
Location:
- 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
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.
What you’ll be doing:
- 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.
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.
- 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 we offer:
- 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
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What you'll do
- Serve as technical steward and platform architect for Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud engineering teams.
- Drive technical strategy for a platform processing massive volumes of data in real time.
- Optimize mission-critical infrastructure.
- Mentor engineers.
- Take broad ownership of the fraud prevention platform.
- Act as 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.
- Shape engineering culture, mentor senior engineers, and drive high technical standards from conception to delivery.
What they require
- 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 in production environments.
- Advanced proficiency in polyglot persistence, with experience tuning data models across Document, Wide-Column, and Relational databases.
- Strong platform engineering mindset focused on reliability, observability, and developer velocity.
- Proficiency in communicating complex architectural concepts and driving cross-team consensus.
- Talented, self-motivated individual with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.
- Flexibility for somewhat regular in-person meetings with leadership in San Francisco/Berkeley.
Benefits
- Generous compensation in cash and equity.
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested options.
- 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, including desk, chair, screen, etc.
- Monthly meal stipend.
- Monthly social meet-up stipend.
- Annual health and wellness stipend.
- Annual learning stipend.
- Performance valued over hours worked.
- Flexibility to avoid missing family dinners, school events, social gatherings, or doctor appointments due to arbitrary schedules.
Sardine is an agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Its platform unifies data across risk teams to stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations, supported by a fraud consortium spanning billions of devices, consumers, and businesses worldwide.