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title: "Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention"
company: "Sardine"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/sardine"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/sardine-staff-engineer-fraud-prevention-ee829c78-e5fd-43d6-9603-91462117cb22"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/63f9b76c-0df0-49c1-b6a6-7147a52ccfc4"
workplace: remote
location: "United States"
remote_scope: "United States"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: staff
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["kafka"]
date_posted: 2026-07-17T20:17:13.383Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-26T15:15:11.266Z
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# Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention

**Sardine** — United States

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/63f9b76c-0df0-49c1-b6a6-7147a52ccfc4

## About Sardine

The top agentic risk platform used by leading banks and merchants worldwide to stop fraud in real-time, prevent AI-driven attacks, automate fraud & AML operations

## About the role

**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 stipendJoin 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 about how we process your personal information and your rights in regards to your personal information as an applicant and Sardine employee, please visit our *[Applicant and Worker Privacy Notice](https://www.sardine.ai/applicant-and-worker-privacy-notice)*.*

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