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Sardine

Staff Engineer – Fraud Prevention

Sardine

. Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams, partnering with stakeholders to unify platform strategy.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $170,000 - $275,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed SystemsKafka

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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.

Requirements

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

Comp & perks
  • 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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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringbackend servicesrules enginedata access patternspartitioning strategiescaching layersreal-time feature computationsstream processing frameworkspolyglot persistencedistributed systems
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringengineering culturecommunicationcross-team consensus