[Remote] Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. The Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention will serve as the technical steward and platform architect for both Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud engineering teams, driving technical strategy and mentoring engineers.

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

• 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

Company Overview

Sardine is a fraud prevention and compliance software company for the digital economy. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in Miami, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.sardine.ai.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Sardine has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 6 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 7 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.