Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will own the data infrastructure components that support the SentiLink suite of products and collaborate with various teams to enhance and modify the data platform.
Responsibilities
- Build, expand, and optimize data infrastructure in order 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
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering or related field
- Proficient in 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. postgres), 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 (enjoy the journey)
- 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
- 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
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!
Company Overview
SentiLink is an identity verification technology company that helps in detecting and blocking synthetic identities. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.sentilink.com.