# Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention  at Sardine

_Remote · Full-time · Listed 2026-07-17 · Source: RemoteDevWork_

- Location: North America
- Pay (as listed): USD 190,000 - 275,000
- Pay (est. USD): $190,000 - $275,000
- Seniority: Principal

## Apply

Original listing: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/63f9b76c-0df0-49c1-b6a6-7147a52ccfc4/application
On RemoteDevWork: https://remotedevwork.com/jobs/9945/staff-engineer-fraud-prevention

## Description

**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 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.
- We're a remote-first team spread across time zones, so no office to report to - work from wherever helps you do your best work. Just a couple of things to keep in mind: pay is based on where you're located, and you'll need to keep a home base in the country you're hired in. So while we love the "coffee shop today, mountains tomorrow" life, this isn't a passport-optional, work-from-anywhere-on-Earth kind of remote - think flexible *within* your country, not borderless.

**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.

**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 stipend

Join 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)*.*