Full-Time
Product Manager
Updated on 8/1/2026
Sardine
201-500 employees
Real-time fraud prevention and compliance platform
No salary listed
Remote in USA
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- Deep understanding of cloud computing, specifically Google Cloud Platform, infrastructure as code using Terraform, container orchestration using Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine, and Site Reliability Engineering principles.
- Extensive experience with data warehousing, data lakes, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence and machine learning product deployment.
- Proven ability to manage large cloud budgets, analyze cost and pricing structures, and optimize infrastructure spending within the Google Cloud ecosystem.
- Demonstrated experience directly managing technical personnel, including engineers and Site Reliability Engineers, and leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Ability to translate complex technical infrastructure and data concepts into clear business value for executive stakeholders.
- Define, monitor, and enforce error budgets to ensure 99.99% product availability.
- Create and execute production system scaling strategies and lead cloud infrastructure operational maintenance, including Google Kubernetes Engine cluster consolidation.
- Own the Google Cloud Platform cloud computing budget; analyze pricing structures and identify process flows to improve productivity and reduce operational costs.
- Work with Data Engineers to prioritize performance tuning, such as partitioning and clustering BigQuery tables and optimizing extract, transform, load and extract, load, transform pipelines.
- Ensure the data architecture supports advanced analytics and machine learning models, and prepare clean, accessible datasets for Data Scientists.
- Partner with Legal and Security teams to ensure the Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform environment complies with privacy regulations, including GDPR and CCPA, using Cloud Identity and Access Management and strict data access policies.
- Drive the lifecycle of internal Platform-as-a-Service and Data-as-a-Service products.
- Oversee highly technical engineering teams and lead cross-departmental initiatives encompassing data platforms, artificial intelligence automation, and security compliance.
Sardine.ai provides a fraud prevention and compliance platform for banks, retailers, and fintechs. It helps detect fraud, prevent money laundering, and stop scams with a suite of tools including customer due diligence, risk scoring, transaction monitoring, investigations, and case management. The platform analyzes every customer interaction and combines signals with data from over 35 providers to produce real-time risk scores for authorization decisions, monitoring patterns like typing speed and mouse movement. Sardine.ai can assume liability, manage risk decisioning and disputes, and aims to reduce chargebacks while maximizing legitimate transaction approvals and streamlining compliance.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$145.6M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2020
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- The fraud detection market is projected to grow 15.9% CAGR to $146.25B by 2033, driven by AI[5].
- National Bank of Canada led a $25M Series C extension, bringing total funding to $170 million[4].
- Partnerships with Modulr, Linker Finance, and Modern Treasury expand real-time fraud detection across payment rails[7].
What critics are saying
- Stablecoin-native platforms like Infinite and Trusted bypass Sardine's legacy models for real-time crypto transactions, prob 45-60% in 6-12 months[1].
- National Bank of Canada may replace Sardine with its internal agentic AI risk platform post-2026, prob 30-45% in 6-12 months[4].
- Fintech clients might shift to on-premise AI fraud models from vendors like Deel and Brex, prob 50-70% in 12-18 months[1].
What makes Sardine unique
- Sardine is the world's only behavior-infused fraud and compliance platform detecting scams before they happen[3].
- It combines device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and data from over 40 vendors for precise risk scores[5].
- Sardine takes liability for risk decisions and manages disputes on behalf of clients[2].
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Benefits
Generous compensation in cash and equity
7-year for post-termination option exercise (vs. standard 90 days)
Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
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 60% 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
Monthly health and wellness stipend
Monthly meet-up stipend
Unlimited access to an expert financial advisory
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -2%1 year growth
↓ -2%2 year growth
↓ -3%Infinite and Sardine announce integration linking compliance, risk, and payments. Infinite, one of the AI-native compliance and payments platforms built for the stablecoin economy, and Sardine, a fraud, risk, and payments platform, recently announced a two-way integration that combines Sardine's real-time fraud and risk intelligence with Infinite's AI-powered compliance platform and account infrastructure. The integration enables Infinite customers to incorporate Sardine's risk signals directly into compliance workflows, while providing Sardine customers with access to account infrastructure designed to support compliant money movement. Together, the companies are helping stablecoin businesses, fintechs, and financial institutions streamline onboarding, strengthen risk management, and simplify payments operations. "As stablecoins become an increasingly important part of the global financial system, businesses need compliance risk infrastructure that can keep pace with the speed and scale of digital access transactions," said Sardine CEO Soups Ranjan. "We're excited to partner with Infinite to help deliver the monitoring, screening and fraud prevention capabilities institutions need to transact with confidence." Smarter compliance decisions. As part of the integration, Infinite now incorporates Sardine's real-time risk intelligence, including device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, transaction risk data, and the patterns Sardine surfaces across its network of financial customers. Infinite combines rules-based controls with AI-powered decisioning to evaluate risk, automate reviews, and determine appropriate next steps, including approvals, escalations, or requests for additional information. By integrating Sardine's signals directly into its compliance workflows, Infinite helps customers make faster, more informed compliance decisions while reducing reliance on manual review processes. Each evaluation generates a comprehensive audit trail that captures the signals reviewed, the rules applied, and the reasoning behind each decision, providing the transparency and explainability required by financial institutions and regulators. A unified foundation for payments. The partnership also brings Infinite Accounts into Sardine's payments platform, giving customers access to a verified, compliance-aware account layer that supports the movement of funds. By connecting account infrastructure, risk intelligence, compliance workflows, and payments operations, the integration reduces operational complexity and helps eliminate friction between customer verification and transaction execution. For customers, the result is a more seamless connection between identity, risk, compliance, and payments, creating a foundation designed for the speed, scale, and global reach of stablecoin transactions. A reunion, not just an integration. As Sardine alumni, Infinite's founders understand first-hand the importance of building proper fraud and financial crime controls into stablecoin infrastructure from the ground up. "There's a reason these two platforms fit together so cleanly. Infinite was founded by Raj, myself, and Krisan, all former Sardine employees," said Nikhil Srinivasan. "We learned the fundamentals of fraud, risk, and compliance inside Sardine, then built Infinite to apply that experience to the stablecoin economy. The shared background is part of why the two platforms integrate so naturally." What's next. Infinite and Sardine plan to expand the integration over time, exploring additional capabilities across onboarding, transaction monitoring, compliance automation, and payments infrastructure as demand for stablecoin-powered financial services continues to grow.
Linker Finance, a modular platform for community banks, has partnered with Sardine to integrate real-time fraud prevention into its retail and business banking offerings. The collaboration will embed Sardine's device, behavioural and transaction risk signals across deposit account opening, funding, payments and authentication workflows. The integration targets high-risk flows including KYC and KYB verification, AML, and ACH and wire transactions. By combining Sardine's technology with Linker's orchestration controls, community banks gain access to enterprise-grade fraud detection capabilities typically available only to major national institutions. The partnership aims to reduce manual review workloads, improve customer conversion during account opening and funding, and provide faster threat detection. Sardine's platform already serves clients including FIS, GoDaddy and Brex.
Linker Finance and Sardine partner to deliver real-time fraud prevention for community banks. PR Newswire Integration brings Sardine's device, behavioral and transaction signals into Linker's platform to protect retail and business customers LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Linker Finance, a modular platform purpose-built for community banks, today announced a strategic partnership with Sardine, the leading agentic risk management platform designed to protect companies from financial crime. Through this partnership, Linker Finance will integrate advanced real-time fraud detection into its retail and business banking offerings. The collaboration enables Linker to apply Sardine's device, behavioral and transaction risk signals across deposit account opening, funding, payments and authentication workflows, improving early threat detection, reducing manual review workload and strengthening depositor protection. The integration focuses on high-risk retail and commercial flows, including deposit account opening and funding, KYC and KYB verification, AML, ACH and wire transactions. By combining Sardine's technology infrastructure signals with Linker's orchestration and customer intelligence controls, banks gain faster, richer insight into risky activity. "Community banks remain the backbone of local economies, but are often lacking the sophisticated anti-fraud and risk management technologies of major national banks," said Ravi Loganathan, GM of Banking at Sardine. "By integrating Sardine with Linker's retail and business banking workflows, we're giving community institutions enterprise grade protection that will protect their customers and communities with confidence." "Combining Linker's retail and business banking capabilities with Sardine's advanced risk signals transforms how community banks combat payment and account fraud. By applying Sardine's real-time scoring to check processing, ACH and wire transactions alongside AML monitoring, banks gain faster threat detection and automated response options, which reduces manual review workload for bankers, lets teams prioritize customer relationships and strengthens protection for depositors," said Jorge Garcia, CEO and Co-Founder of Linker Finance. "As a technology organization, we focus on integrations that are fast, reliable and measurable. Sardine's low-latency APIs and robust device and behavioral signals let us automate risk decisions in real time across retail and commercial flows, improve customer conversion during funding, and significantly reduce manual workload for operations," said Pete Torres, EVP, CIO at Linker Finance.
Gr4vy partners with Sardine to embed fraud and AML into their platform. Gr4vy. Enterprises can now access AI-driven fraud prevention and compliance tools directly through Gr4vy's payment orchestration layer San Mateo, February 17, 2026: Gr4vy, the cloud-based payment orchestration platform, today announced a new integration with Sardine, the leading agentic platform to fight financial crime. The integration allows Gr4vy customers to embed fraud solutions, including real-time transaction monitoring, fraud interdiction, and BSA/AML compliance tools, directly into their payment orchestration stack without additional development. The announcement comes as fraud becomes an ongoing operational reality for merchants, with 98% of businesses experiencing at least one form of fraud each year. Sardine supports enterprises operating in more than 70 countries by detecting fraud in real-time using device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and machine-learning models. To date, Sardine has protected over $1T in transaction volume for 565M consumers and 2.7M businesses. Integrated into Gr4vy's orchestration layer, Sardine's fraud fighting capabilities can now be activated through a single connection, simplifying how merchants manage risk across payment flows. Gr4vy merchants can automate fraud decisions, reduce manual reviews, and limit false positives while maintaining fast checkout experiences. Risk logic can be updated without disrupting payment routing or performance, helping teams respond more efficiently as fraud patterns evolve. John Lunn, Founder and CEO of Gr4vy, said the integration reflects the growing need to treat fraud as part of the core payment infrastructure rather than a separate system. "Fraud prevention shouldn't slow down payments; it should improve how decisions are made," said Lunn. "By integrating Sardine, merchants can manage fraud detection and payment orchestration together, while preserving the flexibility and speed required to operate at scale." "When you have payments, you will inevitably have fraud. And as payment ecosystems become more complex, merchants need solutions that can address risk and compliance without impacting performance," said Soups Ranjan, CEO and Co-Founder of Sardine. "Our partnership with Gr4vy allows merchants to run fraud and AML controls through a single integration, simplifying how risk is managed across payment methods and geographies." Together, Gr4vy and Sardine provide a more integrated approach to managing fraud and risk. Merchants can leverage device fingerprinting, behavioral biometrics, and real-time webhook updates to detect and respond to suspicious activity across payment flows. Gr4vy's event streaming shares transaction outcomes with Sardine's fraud models to continuously improve detection accuracy over time. As a result, merchants can strengthen fraud protection while improving acceptance rates and reducing friction and costs across their payments stack.
Sardine has raised $70 million in Series C funding, led by Activant Capital, with support from Andreessen Horowitz, Visa, Experian Ventures, and others.