Data Platform Engineer
Sardine provides a platform for fraud prevention, KYC/AML compliance, transaction monitoring, and bot detection.
Investors
About Sardine
Sardine offers a comprehensive suite of products for fraud prevention and compliance, including customer due diligence, risk scoring, investigations, and case management. It utilizes device intelligence, behavior biometrics, identity signals, and transaction data to provide precise risk scores and prevent financial crime.
Skills
About the Role
You will design and implement ETL pipelines that process terabytes of data, build and optimize high-performance APIs for fast and reliable data retrieval, and architect scalable storage solutions. You will collaborate with stakeholders to turn raw data into actionable products, document architectures and APIs, and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- Advanced English proficiency (C1)
- 5+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, designing high-performance APIs, and processing large-scale datasets
- Hands-on experience with streaming pipelines using Apache Flink, Apache Beam, Airflow, or Apache Spark
- Expertise in Go, Python, or Java and strong foundation in SQL and NoSQL databases (Bigtable, BigQuery, DynamoDB)
- Proficiency with AWS or GCP infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong analytical skills and ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly
Responsibilities
- Design and implement ETL pipelines capable of processing terabytes of data efficiently
- Develop and optimize APIs to support fast and reliable data retrieval, including exact and partial matches
- Architect and manage scalable storage solutions such as Bigtable, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, and other NoSQL/SQL systems
- Collaborate with teams to turn raw data into actionable products and drive insights
- Work closely with internal and external stakeholders including data science, product, and operations
- Document processes, architectures, and APIs
- Mentor junior engineers and foster technical excellence
Benefits
- Equity
- Early exercise for all options including pre-vested
- Remote work / Work from anywhere
- Flexible paid time off and year-end break
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (US and Canada specific)
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP (US and Canada specific)
- MacBook Pro provided
- One-time home office setup stipend
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual learning stipend