2 months ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve DevOps and platform engineering across build and deployment pipelines, monitoring, infrastructure as code, and cost optimization.
- Design and maintain secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines that support rapid product iteration without sacrificing stability.
- Improve observability using Datadog, GCP, and custom dashboards, including FinOps-focused outcomes.
- Implement FinOps governance, including showback and chargeback models, to establish cost accountability across engineering teams.
- Build internal tooling and reusable modules that simplify infrastructure and improve developer productivity.
- Help engineering teams define and measure SLOs and establish standards for system health and reliability.
- Advise Product and Engineering on cost-effective architectural patterns for new services and features.
- Shape DevOps practices, engineering culture, and the long-term DevOps roadmap.
- Collaborate with product engineering, Security, Finance, and other teams to align technical spending with business and financial goals.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering, ideally in high-growth startup environments.
- Proficiency in Python or Go and strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Proven ownership of production infrastructure and platform tooling, with strong debugging and distributed-systems troubleshooting skills.
- Experience designing secure, robust infrastructure for stringent regulatory environments such as government agencies and major financial institutions.
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform.
- Familiarity with GCP or other major cloud providers, including cloud cost management, reserved instances or savings plans, and cost anomaly detection.
- Hands-on experience with FinOps tools such as Kubecost, AWS Cost Explorer, GCP Cloud Billing, or DoIT Cloud Intelligence, or experience building custom cost allocation and reporting tools.
- Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines and internal developer tooling from the ground up.
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus or Datadog and participation in an on-call rotation.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement from Ireland, with work-from-anywhere flexibility.
- Flexible paid time off and a year-end break.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents in the US and Canada.
- 4% 401(k)/RRSP matching in the US and Canada.
- MacBook Pro provided.
- One-time home-office setup stipend.
- Monthly meal and social meet-up stipends.
- Annual health and wellness stipend.
- Annual learning stipend.
- Compensation includes cash and equity, with early exercise available for all options.
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About Sardine
Sardine builds an integrated fraud and anti–money-laundering platform for banks, fintechs, and online businesses, combining device fingerprinting, behavioral biometrics, session telemetry, and real-time transaction monitoring, with APIs and case management to block attacks and automate reviews. Privately held and founded in 2020, it is headquartered in San Francisco. Publicly named customers include FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com.