SentiLink combines technology and expertise to help financial institutions stop identity fraud at the application stage. Backed by a16z and Felicis.
About the role
Define the long-term technical vision and architecture for SentiLink's Data Platform. Design and evolve large-scale data infrastructure that powers our identity and fraud detection systems.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or a related field, with demonstrated ownership of large-scale distributed systems
- Expert-level proficiency in Python or Golang
- Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale ETL/ELT and streaming data platforms using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, Hadoop, or similar distributed processing frameworks
- Strong experience designing scalable distributed systems in AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Deep expertise across multiple data storage technologies, including relational databases (PostgreSQL), search platforms (OpenSearch), columnar data stores, object storage, and modern data lake architectures
- Experience designing highly available, containerized services running on Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
More about this role
SentiLink stops more than 150,000 fraud attempts and verifies more than 3 million identities every day to protect both institutions and consumers. The problems we work on are challenging, and solving them takes deep domain expertise, rigorous analysis, and a willingness to dig into the details.
At SentiLink, you'll work alongside smart, highly collaborative colleagues who respect each other's time and judgment, take ownership, and follow through on their commitments. Together, we do truly meaningful work protecting the identities of innocent consumers and flagging the fraudsters attempting to exploit them.
We're well capitalized and growing quickly. We already serve 13 of the top 15 U.S. banks, we're expanding into new markets, and we're backed by Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin. We've been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 and as a 2026 FICO Industry Vanguard Decision Award Winner . We were also the first company to go live with the electronic Consent Based Social Security Number Verification (eCBSV) service, and we've testified before the U.S. Congress on the future of identity.
We want SentiLink to be the best place you've ever worked. We offer generous...
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