DevOps Engineer - Sardine

Who we are

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.

About the Role

As a DevOps Engineer at Sardine, you'll play a critical role in evolving our infrastructure and platform tooling to support a growing engineering team. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll drive key initiatives across deployment, observability, developer productivity, and cloud cost management.

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. The role involves building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, improving system observability, optimizing cloud usage through FinOps governance, and strengthening our platform’s resilience.

What you'll be doing

• 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.
• Improve observability via Datadog, GCP, and custom dashboards, including FinOps focused observability outcomes.
• Implement and maintain FinOps governance, including showback and chargeback models, to drive cost accountability across engineering teams.
• Enable developer productivity by creating internal tooling, reusable modules, and simplifying infrastructure for other engineering teams.
• Help teams define and measure SLOs setting the standard for how we think about system health and reliability.
• Serve as a FinOps thought leader, collaborating with Product and Engineering to define the most cost-effective architectural patterns for new services and features.
• Play a key role in shaping our engineering culture, DevOps best practices, and influencing our long-term DevOps roadmap.
• Work cross-functionally with product engineering, security, finance, and other teams to align technical spending with business unit economics and financial goals.

What you'll need

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering roles, ideally in high-growth startup environments
• 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
• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing highly secure and robust infrastructure, particularly in environments with stringent regulatory requirements
• Deep experience with Kubernetes and tools like ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform
• 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
• 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
• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines and internal developer tooling from the ground up
• Hands-on experience with observability tools like Prometheus or Datadog, and participation in an on-call rotation

Benefits we offer

• Generous compensation in cash and equity
• Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
• Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door
• One-time stipend to set up a home office
• Monthly meal stipend
• Monthly social meet-up stipend
• Annual health and wellness stipend
• Annual Learning stipend