# Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform at SentiLink

- Company: SentiLink
- What the company does: SentiLink combines technology and expertise to help financial institutions stop identity fraud at the application stage. Backed by a16z and Felicis.
- Company website: https://www.sentilink.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $220K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentilink/9bc3de0b-1638-4310-8df1-2dd965f0bdf4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sentilink-staff-software-engineer-data-platform/

## 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

Tags: Engineering