Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention
Job description
Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention at sardine.
About the role
This role involves leading technical strategy and architecture for our Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud engineering teams. You will optimize critical infrastructure and mentor engineers while overseeing a platform that processes vast amounts of real-time data.
Key facts
What you'll do
- Provide overall technical leadership for multiple engineering teams, aligning platform strategy with business goals.
- Design and optimize backend services for extremely low latency and a high-throughput rules engine.
- Create optimal data access patterns, partitioning strategies, and caching layers within our multi-cloud database environment.
- Develop robust pipelines for large-scale parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations.
- Influence engineering culture, mentor senior engineers, and ensure high technical standards from start to finish.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including time at a Staff, Principal, or Lead Architect level.
- Extensive knowledge in building highly available, distributed systems requiring ultra-low latency.
- Practical experience with stream processing frameworks in production settings.
- Advanced skill in polyglot persistence, including tuning data models across Document, Wide-Column, and Relational databases.
- A strong focus on platform engineering principles like reliability, observability, and developer efficiency.
- Ability to clearly explain complex architectural ideas and build consensus across different teams.
Skills & tools
- Kafka
- Flink
- SQS
- PubSub
Practical notes
This role offers generous cash and equity compensation, with early exercise for all options. We support a remote-first culture, flexible paid time off, and a year-end break. Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents in the US and Canada, plus 4% matching for 401k/RRSP. You'll receive a MacBook Pro, a one-time home office stipend, and monthly stipends for meals, social meet-ups, health and wellness, and learning.