# Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention at Sardine

- Company: Sardine
- What the company does: 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. Backed by a16z and GV.
- Company website: https://www.sardine.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: North America
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $190K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/63f9b76c-0df0-49c1-b6a6-7147a52ccfc4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sardine-staff-engineer-fraud-prevention/

## 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 they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering