Product Manager - SRE and Data Engineer
Sardine
| Company | Sardine |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | United States |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | USD 200k–220k |
| Posted | 8 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
Who we are:
Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.
Our culture:
- We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. 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.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Product Manager for SRE & Data Engineering is a strong technical product leader responsible for driving the lifecycle of internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Data-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. You will oversee highly technical engineering teams, manage huge cloud budgets, ensure enterprise-grade system availability, and lead cross-departmental initiatives encompassing data platforms, AI automation, and security compliance.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Infrastructure & SRE Operations
- System Reliability: Define, monitor, and enforce error budgets to ensure 99.99% product availability.
- Scaling: Create and execute production system scaling strategies and lead cloud infrastructure operational maintenance (e.g., Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster consolidation).
- Cloud FinOps: Own the GCP cloud computing budget. Analyze pricing structures and identify process flows to improve productivity and reduce operational costs (e.g., achieving 25% cost reductions)
- Data Architecture & AI Initiatives
- Table & Pipeline Optimization: Work with Data Engineers to prioritize performance tuning- such as partitioning and clustering BigQuery tables or optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines—so business users get their data faster.
- Enabling AI/ML: Ensure the data architecture is structured to support advanced analytics and Machine Learning models, and prepare clean, accessible datasets for Data Scientists.
- Data Governance & Security: Partner with Legal and Security teams to ensure the AWS/GCP environment complies with privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) using Cloud IAM (Identity and Access Management) and strict data access policies.
REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
- Deep understanding of cloud computing (GCP), infrastructure as code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE), and Site Reliability Engineering principles.
- Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Business Intelligence (BI), and AI/Machine Learning product deployment.
- Proven ability to manage large cloud budgets, analyze cost/pricing structures, and optimize infrastructure spend within the Google Cloud ecosystem.
- Demonstrated experience directly managing technical personnel (engineers, SREs) and leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Exceptional ability to translate complex technical infrastructure and data concepts into clear business value for executive stakeholders.
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 and Year-end break
- 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 y
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