Sardine
Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention
$190K–$275K
North America +2 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 17, 2026
- Location
- North America
United States
Canada - Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience; proven track record operating at Staff, Principal, or Lead Architect level.
About the job
Leads platform architecture and technical strategy for Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud teams, building and optimizing real-time fraud-prevention systems.
What you'll do
- Unify platform strategy across teams and partner with stakeholders.
- Architect and optimize low-latency backend services, rules engines, data access, and real-time computation pipelines.
- Mentor senior engineers and promote high technical standards and engineering culture.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise building highly available distributed systems with ultra-low latency.
- Production experience with stream-processing frameworks.
- Advanced proficiency in polyglot persistence across Document, Wide-Column, and Relational databases.
- Strong platform engineering, reliability, observability, communication, and cross-team consensus skills.
Pay
$190K – $275K (base salary)
Tools
Kafka, Flink, SQS, PubSub
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