DevOps Lead

Summary

Join Sardine, a leader in fraud prevention and AML compliance, as a DevOps Lead and play a critical role in evolving our infrastructure and platform tooling. This hands-on technical leadership role involves driving key initiatives across deployment, observability, and developer productivity. You will work closely with application engineers, QA, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient. The role includes building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, improving system observability, optimizing cloud usage, and strengthening our platform’s resilience. This is an ideal role for someone with deep technical expertise who thrives in high-ownership environments and is excited to shape the future of DevOps at Sardine. We offer a remote-first work culture with a globally distributed team, allowing you to work from anywhere.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with GCP (preferred) or other major cloud providers, with a focus on cost and performance optimization

Benefits

• Generous compensation in cash and equity
• Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
• Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
• Flexible paid time off, Year-end break, Self care days off
• 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
• Unlimited access to an expert financial advisory