DevOps Engineer

Sardine; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous cash and equity compensation

Remote-first culture

Home office stipend

Job summary

Sardine is hiring a senior DevOps Engineer to scale our platform tooling, CI/CD, and cost governance for a high-growth engineering team. You will own the DevOps function, enhance observability, and drive FinOps initiatives while enabling rapid product iterations.

Join a remote-first culture with strong ownership and collaboration across Security, Finance, and Engineering to ensure reliable, cost-efficient systems and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering roles, preferably in high-growth startups.
• Strong Python or Go skills with solid software fundamentals.
• Proven ownership of production infrastructure and platform tooling, with debugging and distributed systems expertise.
• Experience designing robust, secure infra in regulated environments (government/finance).
• Deep Kubernetes experience with ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform.
• Familiarity with GCP (preferred) or other clouds and cloud cost management strategies.
• Hands-on with observability tools like Prometheus or Datadog and on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the DevOps and platform engineering function from build pipelines to monitoring, IaC, and cost optimization.
• Design and maintain secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines for rapid product iterations without sacrificing stability.
• Improve observability with Datadog, GCP, and custom dashboards; drive FinOps-focused outcomes.
• Implement FinOps governance, showback/chargeback models, and drive cost accountability across teams.
• Create internal tooling and reusable modules to boost developer productivity.
• Help define and measure SLOs to set standards for system health and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to optimize architectural patterns for cost.

Skills

Python

Go

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

FinOps

Cost Management

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

GCP

Kubecost

AWS Cost Explorer

Job description

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.

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.

Location:

• 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.

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. While we have core tools in place, we’re looking for someone who can both own and elevate them by identifying gaps, improving automation, and proactively driving improvements.

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.

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 such as those used by government agencies and major financial institutions
• 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
• Experience with FedRAMP certification is a plus

Benefits we offer:

• Generous compensation in cash and equity
• Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
• Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
• Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door
• 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

Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.

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