Product Manager, Sardine
SRE and Data Engineer
$200-220k
Fraud prevention & compliance infrastructure
Open for applications
Fraud prevention & compliance infrastructure
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-220k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To remove the friction and risks associated with high velocity money movement, from banks and cards through to digital wallets and crypto.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding of cloud computing (GCP), infrastructure as code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE), and Site Reliability Engineering principles
- Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Business Intelligence (BI), and AI/Machine Learning product deployment
- Proven ability to manage large cloud budgets, analyze cost/pricing structures, and optimize infrastructure spend within the Google Cloud ecosystem
- Demonstrated experience directly managing technical personnel (engineers, SREs) and leading cross-functional teams without direct authority
- Exceptional ability to translate complex technical infrastructure and data concepts into clear business value for executive stakeholders
What the job involves
- The Product Manager for SRE & Data Engineering is a strong technical product leader responsible for driving the lifecycle of internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Data-as-a-Service (SaaS) products
- You will oversee highly technical engineering teams, manage huge cloud budgets, ensure enterprise-grade system availability, and lead cross-departmental initiatives encompassing data platforms, AI automation, and security compliance
- System Reliability: Define, monitor, and enforce error budgets to ensure 99.99% product availability
- Scaling: Create and execute production system scaling strategies and lead cloud infrastructure operational maintenance (e.g., Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster consolidation)
- Cloud FinOps: Own the GCP cloud computing budget. Analyze pricing structures and identify process flows to improve productivity and reduce operational costs (e.g., achieving 25% cost reductions)
- Table & Pipeline Optimization: Work with Data Engineers to prioritize performance tuning- such as partitioning and clustering BigQuery tables or optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines—so business users get their data faster
- Enabling AI/ML: Ensure the data architecture is structured to support advanced analytics and Machine Learning models, and prepare clean, accessible datasets for Data Scientists
- Data Governance & Security: Partner with Legal and Security teams to ensure the AWS/GCP environment complies with privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) using Cloud IAM (Identity and Access Management) and strict data access policies
Our take
Identity and payment fraud is one of the biggest dangers facing online businesses. Sardine is setting out to solve this problem by building the first zero-day fraud prevention technology.
Sardine's technology traces intrinsic behaviour patterns to identify so-called "bad actors" online, and detects fraudsters using machine-learned fraud scores and user behavior biometrics.
The company calls itself the world's first FaaS (Fraud Detection as a Service), and its solutions are already drawing business from next-gen crypto and financial service institutions. Onboarding these institutions and scaling its customer base at pace will ensure that Sardine maintains its frontrunner position.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2025
$70m
SERIES C
Sep 2022
$51.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $145.6m
Company benefits
- Generous equity compensation
- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
- Unlimited paid time off and minimum 2 weeks/year of mandatory vacation
- 100% of health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and 50% for dependents
- 4% matching in 401k
- Company-wide offsites, the last one was at Miami
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, monitors, etc
- Monthly meal stipend
- Annual fitness allowance
- Unlimited access to an expert financial advisory
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Soups Ranjan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as Director of Data Science & Risk at Coinbase, and was Head of Crypto at Revolut.
Zahid Shaikh
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Senior Product Manager at both PayPal and Uber, and was Senior Product Owner at Revolut.
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