Working together to shape a safer future

At Fideo, we understand the challenges individuals, organizations, and societies face when dealing with bad actors. Therefore, we are committed to providing the most comprehensive identity intelligence product available.

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We encourage our team members to join us in our mission to empower our customers to make informed decisions in real time, safeguard their resources, and protect themselves against potential risks.

A symbol of trust and good faith, Fides (Latin: Fidēs) serves as a symbol that motivates and inspires our values at Fideo. We know trust is the glue that holds societies together.

Values we live by

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We are awesome with people

Kindness is the core of well-nurtured, open, and inclusive relationships. We’re stronger when surrounded by people with diverse backgrounds and are committed to fair and equitable treatment of others.

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We relentlessly deliver and improve

We strive to evolve as we win and lose as a team. We’re brutally honest with ourselves and work to push our standards higher. We act with humility, and we learn from our mistakes for continuous improvement.

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We have grit

You can complain or do what’s right by taking action—you can’t do both. We persevere and sacrifice to achieve our goals and won’t let our communities, customers, or teammates down.

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We are mission obsessed

We are relentless in our pursuit to work with our customers to reliably protect identities and prevent fraud. Their success is our success and we create mutual trust through collaboration, attention to detail, and living up to our commitments.

We are awesome with people.
ALL people.

Everyone is welcome, regardless of their background. We are committed to a fair and equitable candidate attraction process. We encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds to apply for open roles, even if they don’t meet all of the criteria. We appreciate that talent is shaped in many different ways.

Our culture is diverse and inclusive, where employees feel comfortable and confident bringing their whole selves to work.

We are creative. We are driven. We are slightly different.

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Total rewards benefits package

Our work takes a team effort and we provide competitive, generous benefits to all team members.

Competitive compensation
Competitive compensation
Insurance benefits
Life-work synergy
Peer-to-peer recognition program
Career pathing program
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We believe the awesome people who help us build great things deserve ownership in the company. We offer each new hire equity, competitive compensation, and company bonuses, reviewed regularly to keep up with market trends.

  • Competitive salary
  • 401(K) retirement plan
  • Annual lump sum vacation bonus
  • $200 monthly work-from-home reimbursement
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We’ve got you covered—We want to ensure our employees and those they love are taken care of, so we provide a generous insurance package.

  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
  • Company-funded health reimbursement account (HRA)
  • 2 employee assistance programs (EAP)
  • Life, AD&D, and disability coverage
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We offer a 100% remote, flexible, family-first schedule. We encourage all team members to respect their fellow employees’ schedules across multiple time zones. We also encourage team members to take advantage of their leave options.

  • Default remote work experience
  • Unlimited vacation time off
  • Annual lump sum vacation bonus
  • 28 company holidays (nearly 3x the national average)
  • 1 week office closure between Christmas and New Year’s
  • 6 weeks paid parental leave
  • 12 weeks paid maternity leave
  • Paid sick & bereavement leave
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We offer a peer-to-peer recognition program to provide multiple ways to recognize those on our global team for exemplifying our core values and going above and beyond to help a colleague.

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We’ve created career paths for every team to empower each employee’s success. We work with employees to create Individual Development Plans for career and personal goals.

Open roles

We empower connections between people and brands in real time. Ready to take on the challenge of a lifetime? Let’s talk.

Current Openings

Principal Engineer

About the Role: 

At Fideo, we’re leading the charge in the fight against fraud by turning data into actionable insights. As a Principal Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of building systems that detect and disrupt fraudulent activity in real-time, protecting individuals and organizations alike. This isn’t just about code—it’s about creating solutions that make a tangible impact on people’s lives.

In this role, you’ll design and implement highly scalable, performant systems capable of processing billions of records across diverse data sources—from AdTech and MarTech to dark web signals. You’ll collaborate with a small, highly skilled team to build the foundation of Fideo’s platform, driving innovation in areas like real-time data processing, microservices architecture, and API development.

You’ll work closely with our Product and Data teams, tackling complex technical challenges while delivering features that bring immediate value to our customers. Whether it’s optimizing batch data ingestion, scaling high-throughput APIs, or debugging distributed systems, you’ll own the toughest problems and see them through from end to end.

As a senior technical leader, you’ll also play a key role in setting engineering standards, exploring new technologies, and shaping the future of Fideo’s platform and culture.

Ideal Candidate:

Our ideal candidate has an insatiable curiosity about the world, always seeking to understand how things work and why problems arise. When faced with a problem, they know how to navigate ambiguity and identify the right paths to resolve it. They combine an eye for detail with the ability to quickly build and test solutions, turning ideas into actionable insights to validate or disprove concepts.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Write high-quality, well-tested code to support data ingestion, delivery, and foundational systems.
  • Build and evolve batch data ingestion pipelines and microservices, integrating identity fragments into our Identity Graph and real-time Signals data collection.
  • Seamlessly blend batch and API-based data sets to ensure consistent data integrity across all sources.
  • Develop and maintain microservices that can scale to handle thousands of requests per second.
  • Take ownership of problems from end to end, creating functional solutions that address real needs.
  • Embrace a DevOps-first mindset to manage and self-serve infrastructure changes as needed.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Management to flesh out, document, and develop impactful features.
  • Lead innovation in processes and technologies to improve the efficiency, quality, and speed of both our systems and our team.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, ensuring high availability for key systems.
  • Mentor and support teammates, fostering technical growth within the team.
  • Support Sales in closing deals by contributing a strong technical voice to customer conversations.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years in engineering, with a focus on high-throughput microservice architectures.
  • Expertise in building and scaling microservices using Java, Scala, Python, or GoLang API frameworks (we use Dropwizard, Quarkus, and FastAPI).
  • Strong experience with large-scale and NoSQL databases (e.g., ClickHouse, Scylla, Cassandra).
  • Proficient in traditional RDBMS and SQL systems (e.g., MySQL, Postgres, Aurora, Athena).
  • Skilled in scaling and debugging complex microservice systems.
  • Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (especially AWS) and experience deploying cloud-based services.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, and ECS.
  • Experienced in cloud configuration and deployment templates (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
  • Comfortable with Linux/Unix and command-line scripting.
  • Familiar with observability tools like PagerDuty, Graphite, and Grafana.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to create clear, concise documentation, diagrams, and presentations.
  • Strong architectural skills, with experience designing robust systems.
  • Proficiency in data architecture and efficient data formats like Parquet and Avro.
  • Hands-on experience with AirFlow, Spark, and Scala.

Nice to Haves:

  • Background in fintech or fraud prevention.
  • Experience in Identity Resolution.
  • Algorithms expertise or a strong mathematical background.
  • Front-end experience for debugging tools.

About Fideo:

At Fideo, we provide crucial intelligence to protect people, businesses, and communities. Our name is inspired by the concept of “Fides Publica,” which means public faith. We provide businesses access to billions of aggregated identity signals on people, devices, and behavior. Fideo applies trusted intelligence to power real-time identity verification and fraud protection.

At Fideo, we have embraced a default remote work environment in the US. Roles can be filled in the following states: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Texas. Please only apply if you live in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.

Compensation and Benefits:

  • $170,000 - $195,000 base plus company-based bonus plan and equity.
  • We offer you and your family 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • We are #defaultremote (fully and permanently remote). We plan to get the entire team together in person at least once a year.
  • Work-Life Harmony  - we want work to work for you and your family’s schedule.
  • A monthly reimbursement for recurring home office expenses.
  • Unlimited VTO (vacation time off) so you can recharge and relax when needed.
  • Paid Parental Leave when you welcome a new member to your family.
  • Bereavement leave to support the grieving process for the loss of both human and animal family members.
  • The rich Company holiday schedule includes the week between Christmas and New Year off!
  • We provide a prepaid HRA card for out-of-pocket medical, dental, and vision expenses.

All offers of employment at Fideo are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check. Fideo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fideo does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

By clicking on the “submit application” button and applying for a job at Fideo, you are agreeing to submit your data to Fideo for the purposes of determining qualification for the role. In addition, Fideo will keep the personal data you submit for future recruiting and hiring processes.

Senior Platform Engineer

About the Role:
At Fideo, we’re building the foundation to combat fraud at scale, transforming massive datasets into real-time insights that protect people and organizations worldwide. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll focus on creating reliable, high-performance systems that power our fraud detection platform. Your work will ensure that our real-time data systems and APIs are resilient, fast, and scalable under load.

This role emphasizes hands-on engineering and system-level problem-solving. You’ll be responsible for designing and optimizing real-time pipelines, debugging distributed systems, and building high-throughput microservices to support billions of data points. Whether tackling latency issues, scaling APIs, or implementing new observability tools, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the reliability of our platform.

You’ll collaborate with a close-knit, highly skilled team of engineers to design solutions for real-world problems, contributing to everything from API development to infrastructure automation. This is an opportunity to take ownership of platform challenges, solve complex technical problems, and ensure the systems you build can handle the demands of real-time fraud detection.

Ideal Candidate:

Our ideal candidate is passionate about building reliable systems and thrives in high-performance environments. You are naturally curious, enjoy deep-diving into complex problems, and excel at identifying and resolving issues in real-time systems. You’re a hands-on engineer who combines technical expertise with a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Design and optimize real-time data pipelines and streaming systems for low latency and high throughput.
  • Develop scalable microservices to handle high volumes of requests with reliability and fault tolerance.
  • Maintain and enhance real-time data ingestion and delivery systems using tools like Kafka and ClickHouse.
  • Diagnose and resolve issues in distributed systems, optimizing performance across all layers.
  • Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure platform reliability.
  • Manage infrastructure changes and CI/CD pipelines with a DevOps-first mindset.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deliver impactful solutions.
  • Document systems and workflows, contributing to process and technology improvements.

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of engineering experience, with a focus on real-time systems and platform engineering.
  • Expertise in building and scaling microservices using Java, Scala, or GoLang.
  • Strong experience with streaming platforms like Kafka and event-driven architectures.
  • Proficiency with NoSQL databases such as ClickHouse, Scylla, or Cassandra.
  • Experience with traditional RDBMS systems like MySQL or Postgres.
  • Deep knowledge of debugging distributed systems and diagnosing issues in real-time applications.
  • Strong understanding of networking, including DNS, load balancing, and latency optimization.
  • Expertise in AWS cloud services and deploying cloud-native services.
  • Skilled in CI/CD pipelines and containerization tools like Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS.
  • Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
  • Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or PagerDuty.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to document technical processes clearly.

About Fideo:

At Fideo, we provide crucial intelligence to protect people, businesses, and communities. Our name is inspired by the concept of “Fides Publica,” which means public faith. We provide businesses access to billions of aggregated identity signals on people, devices, and behavior. Fideo applies trusted intelligence to power real-time identity verification and fraud protection.

At Fideo, we have embraced a default remote work environment in the US. Roles can be filled in the following states: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Texas. Please only apply if you live in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.

Compensation and Benefits:

  • $140,000 - $165,000 base plus company-based bonus plan and equity.
  • We offer you and your family 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • We are #defaultremote (fully and permanently remote). We plan to get the entire team together in person at least once a year.
  • Work-Life Harmony  - we want work to work for you and your family’s schedule.
  • A monthly reimbursement for recurring home office expenses.
  • Unlimited VTO (vacation time off) so you can recharge and relax when needed.
  • Paid Parental Leave when you welcome a new member to your family.
  • Bereavement leave to support the grieving process for the loss of both human and animal family members.
  • The rich Company holiday schedule includes the week between Christmas and New Year off!
  • We provide a prepaid HRA card for out-of-pocket medical, dental, and vision expenses.

All offers of employment at Fideo are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check. Fideo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fideo does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

By clicking on the “submit application” button and applying for a job at Fideo, you are agreeing to submit your data to Fideo for the purposes of determining qualification for the role. In addition, Fideo will keep the personal data you submit for future recruiting and hiring processes.

Fideo is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected status. We consider individuals with all backgrounds, consistent with legal requirements. For more details, please see EEO is the Law, Family and Medical Leave Act, and Employee Polygraph Protection Act. Our dedication to compliance ensures a fair and equitable environment for all employees.

Avoiding Recruitment Fraud

We post all open career opportunities on our website and do not use outside recruiting. Any potential candidates will be contacted directly by someone on our team using a fideo.ai email address.

Once a candidate receives an offer from us, they will receive an email from our HR Team with onboarding documents and will be sent equipment directly from someone on our team. We will never request that a new hire purchase their own onboarding equipment.

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