DevOps Lead, Sardine
$180-220k
+ Series C equity
Fraud prevention & compliance infrastructure
Job no longer available
Fraud prevention & compliance infrastructure
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180-220k
+ Series C equity
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
- 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
- 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
- Deep experience with Kubernetes and tools like ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform
- Familiarity with GCP (preferred) or other major cloud providers, with a focus on cost and performance optimization
- 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
What the job involves
- As a DevOps Lead 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 technical leadership role where you’ll drive key initiatives across deployment, observability, and developer productivity
- You’ll work closely with application engineers, QA, and cross-functional stakeholders 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, 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
- 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
- Enable developer productivity by creating internal tooling, reusable modules, and simplifying infrastructure for other engineering teams
- Drive cost-efficiency and performance improvements across our infrastructure
- Help teams define and measure SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, setting the standard for how we think about system health and reliability
- Play a key role in shaping our engineering culture, DevOps best practices, and influencing our long-term infrastructure roadmap
- Work cross-functionally with backend eng, security, finance, and other teams
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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