2 months ago
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 while preserving stability.
- Improve observability using Datadog, GCP, and custom dashboards, including FinOps-focused outcomes.
- Implement FinOps governance through showback and chargeback models to promote engineering cost accountability.
- Create 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 roles.
- Proficiency in Python or Go and strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Proven ownership of production infrastructure and platform tooling, including debugging distributed systems and investigating unexpected financial spikes.
- 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 tooling 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 culture with the role based remotely in Germany and work-from-anywhere flexibility.
- Flexible paid time off and a year-end break.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, with US and Canada-specific availability.
- 4% 401(k) / RRSP matching for US and Canada employees.
- MacBook Pro delivered to the employee's door.
- One-time home-office setup stipend for items such as a desk, chair, and screen.
- Monthly meal stipend.
- Monthly social meet-up stipend.
- Annual health and wellness stipend.
- Annual learning stipend.
- Equity and early exercise options are offered, but compensation details are not specified.
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About Sardine
Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform to fight financial crime. Our integrated suite of fraud and AML solutions unifies data across risk teams to detect fraud in real-time and streamline AML operations. Companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Deel, Checkout, and Brex rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products. Learn more at sardine.ai.