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Staff Engineer

Sardine19 days ago
Remote
$190,000 - $275,000/yearly
Staff

Top Benefits

Generous equity compensation
Remote-first culture, work from anywhere
Unlimited paid time off, minimum 2 weeks mandatory vacation

About the role

Who you are

  • 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

What the job involves

  • 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
  • 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

Benefits

  • Generous equity compensation
  • Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
  • Unlimited paid time off and minimum 2 weeks/year of mandatory vacation
  • 100% of health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and 50% for dependents
  • 4% matching in 401k
  • Company-wide offsites, the last one was at Miami
  • MacBook Pro delivered to your door
  • One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, monitors, etc
  • Monthly meal stipend
  • Annual fitness allowance
  • Unlimited access to an expert financial advisory

About Sardine

Financial Services