Staff Data Platform Architect — Remote & Impactful

SentiLink; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Flexible PTO

In-person events

Home office stipend

Job summary

SentiLink is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Data Platform team to define the technical direction and own the design of critical data infrastructure that powers our fraud detection products.

You will partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to build reliable, scalable data systems, mentor junior engineers, and establish standards that improve how we operate data platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing and owning large-scale distributed systems.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python or Golang.
• Experience with ETL/ELT and streaming data platforms.
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Deep expertise across relational DBs, OpenSearch, data lakes, and object stores.
• Experience running containerized services on Kubernetes.
• Strong IaC, CI/CD, observability, and modern DevOps practices.
• Led technical initiatives across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term technical vision and architecture for SentiLink's Data Platform.
• Design and evolve large-scale data infrastructure powering identity and fraud detection systems.
• Lead architecture of secure, scalable data pipelines processing billions of records.
• Drive improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, observability, and operational excellence.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Infrastructure teams to address cross-functional challenges.
• Establish engineering standards and architectural patterns for data infrastructure across teams.
• Make build-versus-buy decisions and evaluate emerging technologies.
• Improve production reliability and incident response; participate in on-call rotation.
• Develop deep subject matter expertise in identity, fraud detection, and large-scale data processing.

Skills

Python

Golang

AWS

Kubernetes

ETL/ELT

Distributed systems

Data platforms

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Flink

OpenSearch

Hadoop

Job description

SentiLink is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Data Platform team to define the technical direction and own the design of critical data infrastructure that powers our fraud detection products.

You will partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to build reliable, scalable data systems, mentor junior engineers, and establish standards that improve how we operate data platforms.