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. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Data Platform team, responsible for building and scaling the data infrastructure that powers SentiLink’s products and decisioning systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of data engineers responsible for SentiLink’s data platform and infrastructure
- Define and drive the technical vision for data ingestion, processing, storage, and serving systems
- Design and evolve scalable data pipelines (batch and real-time) to support product and data science use cases
- Ensure high standards for data quality, reliability, and observability across all data systems
- Partner with Data Science to enable their pipelines and enable efficient access to high-quality data
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to power data-driven features and decisioning systems
- Work closely with Infrastructure to optimize performance, cost, and scalability of data systems
- Establish best practices for data governance, schema management, and pipeline reliability
- Support operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response for data systems
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while maintaining a high hiring bar
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Contribute to architecture and technical problem-solving as needed
Skills
- 2-5+ years of engineering management experience leading data or platform teams
- Strong background as a senior or staff-level data engineer or backend engineer with data focus
- Experience building and scaling data platforms, including ETL/ELT pipelines and data infrastructure
- Proficiency in Python, Golang, or similar languages
- Deep understanding of distributed data systems, batch and streaming architectures
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Strong knowledge of databases, data modeling, and query optimization (SQL, RDBMS, data warehouses)
- Track record of delivering reliable, scalable data systems in production environments
- Comfortable leading technical discussions and diving into system design details
- Experience operating in fast-paced, startup or growth-stage environments
- Experience with big data and streaming technologies (Spark, Kafka, Flink, etc.)
- Familiarity with data lakes, warehouses (Redshift), and modern data architectures
- Experience building data platforms that support ML or fraud/risk systems
- Fintech or fraud domain experience
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.Company H1B Sponsorship
SentiLink has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 7 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 6 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.