# Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention at Sardine

Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention at Sardine in North America and 2 more. Remote, full-time, paying $190k–$275k. Posted July 17, 2026.

- Company: Sardine
- Location: North America and 2 more
- Workplace: Remote
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $190k–$275k
- Experience: 7+ years
- Posted: 2026-07-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/63f9b76c-0df0-49c1-b6a6-7147a52ccfc4/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/staff-engineer-fraud-prevention-sardine-r91grx

## 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.

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