Description:

Sardine is a leader in fraud prevention and AML compliance, utilizing device intelligence, behavior biometrics, machine learning, and AI to combat fraud.
The company serves over 300 banks, retailers, and fintechs globally, having raised $145M from notable investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Activant, Visa, Experian, FIS, and Google Ventures.
The work culture is remote-first, allowing employees to work from anywhere, including home, beach, mountain, or cafe.
The DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in evolving the infrastructure and platform tooling to support a growing engineering team.
This hands-on technical role involves driving key initiatives across deployment, observability, and developer productivity.
Responsibilities include building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, improving system observability, optimizing cloud usage, and enhancing platform resilience.
The role requires collaboration with application engineers, QA, and cross-functional stakeholders like Security and Finance to ensure system reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering roles, preferably in high-growth startup environments.
Proficiency in Python or Go is required, along with strong software engineering fundamentals.
Proven ownership of production infrastructure and platform tooling is necessary, including strong debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
Experience in designing and implementing secure and robust infrastructure, particularly in regulated environments, is essential.
Deep experience with Kubernetes and tools like ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform is required.
Familiarity with GCP or other major cloud providers, with a focus on cloud cost management, is preferred.
Hands-on experience with dedicated FinOps tooling or custom tooling for cost allocation and reporting is necessary.
Strong experience in building CI/CD pipelines and internal developer tooling from scratch is required.
Experience with observability tools like Prometheus or Datadog, and participation in an on-call rotation is necessary.
Experience with FedRAMP certification is a plus.

The position offers generous compensation in cash and equity.
Employees can take advantage of early exercise for all options, including pre-vested options.
The company promotes a remote-first culture, allowing employees to work from anywhere.
Flexible paid time off and a year-end break are provided.
Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage is available for employees and their dependents in the US and Canada.
A 4% matching in 401k/RRSP is offered for employees in the US and Canada.
A MacBook Pro will be delivered to the employee's door.
A one-time stipend is provided to set up a home office, including desk, chair, screen, etc.
Monthly stipends for meals and social meet-ups are included.
An annual health and wellness stipend, as well as an annual learning stipend, are offered.

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