Sardine

Sardine

DevOps Engineer

United States

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 177 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDPrometheusDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform Engineering

About the role

  • You'll work closely with application engineers, QA, and cross-functional stakeholders like Security and Finance to ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient.
  • This is an ideal role for someone who brings deep technical expertise, thrives in high-ownership environments, and is excited to shape the future of DevOps.
  • Improve observability via Datadog, GCP, and custom dashboards, including FinOps focused observability outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve our DevOps and platform engineering function, from build and deployment pipelines to monitoring, infrastructure as code, and cost optimization.
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that are secure, scalable, and built to support rapid product iterations without sacrificing stability.
  • Implement and maintain FinOps governance, including showback and chargeback models, to drive cost accountability across engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in Python or Go, with strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Proven ownership of production infrastructure and platform tooling, with strong debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems and diagnose unforeseen financial spikes
  • Deep experience with Kubernetes and tools like ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform
  • Hands-on experience with dedicated FinOps tooling (e.g., Kubecost, AWS Cost Explorer, GCP Cloud Billing, DoIT Cloud Intelligence) or building custom tooling for cost allocation and reporting.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools like Prometheus or Datadog, and participation in an on-call rotation

Nice to have

  • 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering roles, ideally in high-growth startup environments
  • Familiarity with GCP (preferred) or other major cloud providers, with a deep focus on cloud cost management, leveraging reserved instances/savings plans, and implementing cost anomaly detection
  • Experience with FedRAMP certification is a plus

Compensation

  • Generous compensation in cash and equity

Benefits

  • Generous compensation in cash and equity
  • Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
  • Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
  • One-time stipend to set up a home office - desk, chair, screen, etc.
  • Monthly meal stipend
  • Monthly social meet-up stipend
  • Annual health and wellness stipend
  • Annual Learning stipend
  • Help teams define and measure SLOs setting the standard for how we think about system health and reliability.

Company info

  • Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine's platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.
  • Our culture:
  • We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere
  • We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.
  • We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.
  • Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime.
  • Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations.
  • Sardine's platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide.
  • Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.
  • Remote - US
  • From Home / Beach / Mountain / Cafe / Anywhere!
  • We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. You can find your productive zone and work from there.
  • Remote

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We have raised $145M from world-class investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Activant, Visa, Experian, FIS, and Google Ventures.

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