Staff Engineer: Real-Time Fraud Platform Architect

Mixpeek; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous cash and equity compensation

Remote-first culture

Home office setup stipend

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Sardine is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead multiple engineering teams, shaping strategy for a real-time fraud platform. You will architect ultra-low-latency services, build a high-throughput rules engine, and design multi-cloud data access and caching layers.

You’ll mentor engineers and drive high technical standards across the organization. You’ll work in a remote-first environment with occasional in-person leadership meetings in San Francisco and Berkeley, contributing to a

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering at Staff/Principal/Lead Architect level.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems with ultra-low latency.
• Hands-on with stream processing frameworks in production.
• Polyglot persistence across Document/Wide-Column/Relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams and align platform strategy.
• Architect and optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and a high-throughput rules engine.
• Design data access patterns, partitioning, and caching across multi-cloud databases.
• Develop robust pipelines for real-time feature computations and aggregations.
• Mentor senior engineers and drive high technical standards from conception to delivery.

Skills

Distributed systems

Low-latency design

Stream processing

Polyglot persistence

Platform engineering

Technical leadership

Architectural communication

Tools

Kafka

Flink

SQS

Pub/Sub

Job description

Sardine is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead multiple engineering teams, shaping strategy for a real-time fraud platform. You will architect ultra-low-latency services, build a high-throughput rules engine, and design multi-cloud data access and caching layers.

You’ll mentor engineers and drive high technical standards across the organization. You’ll work in a remote-first environment with occasional in-person leadership meetings in San Francisco and Berkeley, contributing to a