Staff SRE

Who we are:

We are a leader in fraud prevention and AML compliance. Our platform uses device intelligence, behavior biometrics, machine learning, and AI to stop fraud before it happens. Today, over 300 banks, retailers, and fintechs worldwide use Sardine to stop identity fraud, payment fraud, account takeovers, and social engineering scams. We have raised $145M from world-class investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Activant, Visa, Experian, FIS, and Google Ventures.

Our culture:

• We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, and Toronto. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere

• We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.

• We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.

Location:

• Remote - United States or Canada

• From Home / Beach / Mountain / Cafe / Anywhere!

• We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. You can find your productive zone and work from there.

About the Role

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all production services running smoothly. SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our operating environments. As an SRE at Sardine, you will build and run the core components that processes billions of events to protect financial institutions from fraud and compliance risks. You will also partner with our other engineering teams to help make their services more performant, scalable, observable, and reliable. We believe every engineering team at Sardine should be responsible for the software they build, and SREs play a critical part in providing the tools, practices, and expertise to make that happen.

This role is focused on improving system availability, reducing latency, and owning the reliability of our platform. We’re looking for engineers who’ve actively worked on diagnosing and resolving production bottlenecks, building resilient systems, and improving uptime.

What you'll be doing

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health

• Having a proactive approach to monitoring rather than a reactive approach. - Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages.

• Participate in on-call rotations, along with every member of the engineering team

• Improve and automate operational processes

• Constantly improve the security of the product and security operation

• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack

• Partner with engineering teams to ensure their products meet production standards

• Be willing to go out of your comfort zone to unfamiliar territory to solve unique issues.

• Help shape our company's engineering culture and keep high engineering standards.

• Run our GCP and AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Datadog together with the devops team.

What you'll need

• 7+ years experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production systems

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform

• Experience with monitoring tools like datadog and preferably open source toolings like prometheus/grafana/jaeger(tracing)

• Good to have elastic search experience.

• Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and tools that support Kubernetes deployment, like ArgoCD and helm.

• Strong programming skills in primarily GoLang and/or any other languages

• Strong knowledge about database optimization

• Good knowledge of ensuring good security practices within cloud infrastructure.

Compensation: Base pay range of $180,000 - $220,000 + equity with tremendous upside potential + Attractive benefits

The compensation offered for this role will depend on various factors, including the candidate's location, qualifications, work history, and interview performance, and may differ from the stated range.

Benefits we offer:

• 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

Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.