Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention

**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 Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you. *To learn more abou…