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 to prevent identity fraud, payment fraud, account takeovers, and social engineering scams.
The DevOps Lead will evolve the infrastructure and platform tooling to support a growing engineering team in a hands-on technical leadership role.
Responsibilities include driving initiatives across deployment, observability, and developer productivity, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient.
The role involves building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, improving system observability, optimizing cloud usage, and enhancing platform resilience.
The position requires collaboration with application engineers, QA, and cross-functional stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise and thrive in high-ownership environments.

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 essential, including strong debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
Deep experience with Kubernetes and tools such as ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform is necessary.
Familiarity with GCP or other major cloud providers, focusing on cost and performance optimization, is preferred.
Strong experience in building CI/CD pipelines and internal developer tooling from scratch is required.
Hands-on experience with observability tools like Prometheus or Datadog and participation in an on-call rotation is expected.

The position offers a generous compensation package in cash and equity, with a base pay range of $180,000 - $220,000 and Series C equity with significant upside potential.
Employees benefit from 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, including a year-end break and self-care days off, is 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 home.
A one-time stipend is provided to set up a home office, including a desk, chair, screen, etc.
Monthly stipends for meals and social meet-ups are included.
Annual stipends for health and wellness and learning are offered.
Employees have unlimited access to expert financial advisory services.