Full-Time

Staff SRE

Updated on 11/15/2024

Sardine

Sardine

51-200 employees

Fraud prevention and compliance platform

Fintech
Financial Services

Compensation Overview

$180k - $220kAnnually

+ Equity + Tremendous Upside Potential

Senior, Expert

Remote in USA

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineering
Required Skills
Datadog
Kubernetes
Git
Go
Elasticsearch
Prometheus
Terraform
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • 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.
Responsibilities
  • Run our infrastructure with Terraform, CI/CD (Github and ArgoCD), and Kubernetes together with the devops team
  • 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

Sardine.ai offers a platform for fraud prevention and compliance, serving banks, retailers, and fintech companies. Its tools include customer due diligence, risk scoring, transaction monitoring, and case management, which help detect fraud and prevent unauthorized transactions. What makes Sardine.ai unique is its ability to monitor customer interactions for fraud signals and combine this data with information from over 35 providers to generate accurate risk scores. The company's goal is to enhance security in financial transactions while reducing fraudulent chargebacks and improving approval rates.

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$73.5M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2020

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

7%

1 year growth

11%

2 year growth

87%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Strategic partnerships with companies like Airbase and BitPay enhance Sardine.ai's market reach and credibility.
  • The launch of innovative features like the GenAI assistant, Finley, demonstrates Sardine.ai's commitment to continuous improvement and technological advancement.
  • Sardine.ai's role in enabling dollar-to-crypto conversions for platforms like Lemon opens up new revenue streams and market opportunities.

What critics are saying

  • The highly competitive nature of the fraud prevention and compliance market could pressure Sardine.ai to continuously innovate to maintain its edge.
  • Reliance on partnerships for market expansion may pose risks if these collaborations face challenges or dissolve.

What makes Sardine unique

  • Sardine.ai's platform uniquely combines behavioral data from over 35 providers to deliver precise risk scores, setting it apart from competitors.
  • The company's comprehensive suite of services, including customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, and case management, offers an all-in-one solution for fraud prevention and compliance.
  • Sardine.ai's ability to take on liability and manage disputes on behalf of clients provides a significant value-add that many competitors do not offer.

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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