DevOps Engineer
Sardine provides a platform for fraud prevention, KYC/AML compliance, transaction monitoring, and bot detection.
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About Sardine
Sardine offers a comprehensive suite of products for fraud prevention and compliance, including customer due diligence, risk scoring, investigations, and case management. It utilizes device intelligence, behavior biometrics, identity signals, and transaction data to provide precise risk scores and prevent financial crime.
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About the Role
You will evolve infrastructure and platform tooling to support a growing engineering organization. You will build and maintain secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines, improve observability and dashboards, and implement FinOps governance to optimize cloud spend. You will create internal developer tooling, define and measure SLOs, participate in on-call rotations, and work cross-functionally with product, security, and finance to align technical decisions with business needs.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering roles
- Proficiency in Python or Go and strong software engineering fundamentals
- Proven ownership of production infrastructure and strong debugging skills for distributed systems
- Experience designing and implementing secure infrastructure for regulated environments
- Deep experience with Kubernetes and tools like ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform
- Familiarity with GCP or other major cloud providers and strong focus on cloud cost management
- Experience leveraging reserved instances/savings plans and implementing cost anomaly detection
- Hands-on experience with FinOps tooling such as Kubecost or CloudHealth or building custom cost allocation tooling
- Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines and internal developer tooling
- Hands-on experience with observability tools like Prometheus or Datadog and participation in on-call rotation
- FedRAMP experience or certification is a plus
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve DevOps and platform engineering functions including build, deployment, monitoring, and cost optimization
- Design and maintain secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines to support rapid product iterations
- Improve observability using Datadog, custom dashboards, and cloud monitoring
- Implement and maintain FinOps governance including showback and chargeback models
- Enable developer productivity by building internal tooling and reusable infrastructure modules
- Define and measure SLOs to set standards for system health and reliability
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, security, and finance to align technical spending with business goals
- Shape DevOps best practices and drive long-term platform roadmap
Benefits
- Equity
- Early exercise for all options including pre-vested
- Remote-first work (work from anywhere)
- Flexible paid time off and year-end break
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP
- MacBook Pro provided
- One-time home office setup stipend
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual learning stipend