SentiLink
identity verification
SeniorSoftwareEngineer(SRE)
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“Senior Software Engineer ( SRE ) at SentiLink. Skills: SRE, software engineering, production code, reliability, performance, observability, distributed systems, cloud platforms. Design, write, and ship production-grade code to fix bugs, improve performance, and increase reliability across multiple services. Tackle complex coding challenges in live services”
What You'll Achieve.
improving the reliability and performance of our most critical applications; improves every service, not just one; fix performance bottlenecks; build tooling that supports better observability, cost-efficiency, and operational excellence; help improve our incident response processes; evolve our monitoring strategy; contribute directly to high-impact production systems; align reliability goals with business outcomes; minimize downtime
Industry & Context.
solving tough production problems; Tackle complex coding challenges; Identify and resolve application issues; diving deep across the stack; analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills
availability for overlap hours in the late evening IST, Participate in the engineering on-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7–8+ years of software development experience, with meaningful time in backend or SRE/infrastructure-adjacent roles, coding skills in languages such as Python, Go, or similar, Proven ability to write and ship production code — and debug it under real-world conditions, Deep understanding of PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including performance tuning and query optimization, Hands-on experience with distributed systems, containers (Docker), and Kubernetes in production — including making and defending architectural decisions, not just operating existing setups, Experience with observability and monitoring platforms like Datadog, CloudWatch, or Prometheus, written and verbal communication skills — able to write clear technical proposals, postmortems, and async updates for distributed teams, Comfortable working with US-based counterparts, including regular overlap hours in the late evening IST, Demonstrates a structured execution approach — breaks down ambiguous problems, tracks progress against milestones, and surfaces blockers before they become delays, Knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, and how they align with business objectives, Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and distributed systems, Comfortable working across unfamiliar codebases and resolving issues from code to infrastructure, analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills
Nice to Have
Prior experience in an IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt) or performance engineering role is a plus
What You'll Do.
and ship production-grade code to fix bugs
and increase reliability across multiple services
Tackle complex coding challenges in live services
Identify and resolve application issues by diving deep across the stack
Profile APIs and services under load to identify bottlenecks and implement fixes
Design and evaluate infrastructure solutions
Improve observability by contributing to logs
and distributed tracing
Contribute to the development and maintenance of incident response runbooks
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
Support cost optimization efforts
Research and evaluate new monitoring technologies or best practices
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate closely with backend and product teams; Collaborate effectively with US-based engineering teams, including availability for overlap hours in the late evening IST; Collaborate on defining and measuring SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs; Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
Communication Scope
written and verbal communication skills; write clear technical proposals, postmortems, and async updates for distributed teams; Communicate clearly and proactively; write structured updates; flag blockers early; synthesize technical context for both engineering and non-engineering audiences; Comfortable presenting tradeoffs and decisions to senior stakeholders
Process & Methodology
structured execution approach, breaks down ambiguous problems, tracks progress against milestones, surfaces blockers before they become delays
Full Job Description
SentiLink https://www.sentilink.com/ provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transaction 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. We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. 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’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 https://www.forbes.com/companies/sentilink/?list=fintech50. We have also been named a 2026 FICO Industry Vanguard Decision Award Winner https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260330439998/en/SentiLink-Named-a-2026-FICO-Industry-Vanguard-Decision-Award-Winner-for-Leadership-in-Identity-Theft-Detection. Last but not least, we’ve even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV https://resources.sentilink.com/blog/sentilink-makes-history-as-first-ecbsv-provider and testified before the United States House of Representatives https://resources.sentilink.com/media/sentilinks-statement-before-the-house-financial-services-committee on the future of identity. SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or
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