Staff Engineer (Fraud Prevention)

About the role

Join our team as a Staff Engineer, where you will serve as the technical steward and platform architect for our Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud engineering teams. You will drive technical strategy, optimize mission-critical infrastructure, mentor engineers, and assume broad ownership of a platform that processes massive volumes of data in real-time. This remote-first position offers generous equity compensation, unlimited paid time off, and a range of other benefits. Key missions: Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams, partnering with stakeholders to unify platform strategy.. Architect, design, and optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and a high-throughput rules engine.. Develop robust pipelines for massive parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations. Profile: - A strong platform engineering mindset focused on reliability, observability, and developer velocity - 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal, or Lead Architect level - Hands-on experience working with stream processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Flink, SQS, PubSub) in production environments - Advanced proficiency in polyglot persistence, with experience tuning data models across Document, Wide-Column, and Relational databases - Proficiency in communicating complex architectural concepts and driving cross-team consensus - Deep expertise in building highly available, distributed systems with strict ultra-low latency