Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States, replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin. We support a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office, with physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Gurugram (Delhi), and Bengaluru.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team at SentiLink, you will own the data infrastructure components that support the SentiLink suite of products. You will work with product, engineering, and data science teams across the company to build, enhance, and modify the data platform that powers our fraud detection products. This is a remote, US-based role.

Technologies

• Python, Golang
• PostgreSQL (RDS), OpenSearch, Redshift, EMR, Spark
• Docker, Lambda, AWS technologies

Responsibilities

• Build, expand, and optimize data infrastructure to create the most accurate dataset of identities and their relationships
• Develop and operate secure, scalable, and reliable data ingestion and ETL/ELT pipelines that meet product requirements
• Design and maintain a data observability framework to ensure our data meets strict quality and freshness standards
• Optimize data storage layer and build/maintain interfaces to enable scalable and fast data access to our data stores
• Collaborate with product teams (squads) supporting their data platform needs for smooth delivery of existing and new products
• Participate in call rotation for production issues, along with the rest of engineering
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to our evolving engineering best practices
• Drive innovation by actively participating in our hackathons and doing proof of concepts
• Develop functional subject matter expertise within various areas of identity fraud domain

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering or related field
• Proficient in Python or Golang and related technologies and frameworks
• Expertise in building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines at scale leveraging distributed data processing technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Kafka or similar technologies
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or GCP
• Deep understanding of different database technologies including but not limited to RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL), NoSQL (OpenSearch, vector DB), Columnar data stores etc. and experience with writing efficient queries and optimization techniques
• Experience building enterprise grade, scalable, containerized data services and frameworks on Kubernetes or similar platforms
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps practices
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, interpersonal skills, and a sense of humor
• Self-organized and ability to work independently and with ambiguity
• Experience working in a scrum/Agile development environment
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States

Bonus points

• Experience working with Spark/EMR
• Built streaming applications
• Experience with AWS technologies such as EKS, SQS/SNS, EMR, Redshift, S3 etc.
• Prior experience working in a fintech startup

Pay

$170,000/year - $230,000/year + equity

Benefits

• Employer-paid group health insurance for you and your dependents
• 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non-US-based roles)
• Flexible paid time off
• Regular company-wide in-person events
• Home office stipend, and more

Corporate Values

• Follow Through
• Deep Understanding
• Whatever It Takes
• Do Something Smart