# DevOps Engineer

**Company:** [Sardine](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sardine)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, Helm, GCP, Datadog, Python, Go, CI/CD, Prometheus
**Posted:** 2026-01-26

> DevOps Engineer evolves infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and FinOps practices on GCP/Kubernetes. Requires 6+ years experience, Python/Go proficiency, and expertise in secure, scalable systems for a remote-first fraud prevention platform.

## Job Description

## What you'll be doing
- Own and evolve DevOps and platform engineering: build/deployment pipelines, monitoring, infrastructure as code, cost optimization.
- Design and maintain secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines for rapid iterations.
- Improve observability via Datadog, GCP, and custom dashboards, including FinOps.
- Implement FinOps governance with showback/chargeback models.
- Enable developer productivity with internal tooling and reusable modules.
- Define and measure SLOs for system health.
- Serve as FinOps thought leader, collaborating on cost-effective architecture.
- Shape engineering culture, DevOps practices, and roadmap.
- Work cross-functionally with product, security, finance teams.

## What you'll need
- 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering, ideally in startups.
- Proficiency in **Python** or **Go**.
- Ownership of production infrastructure, debugging distributed systems.
- Secure infrastructure experience in regulated environments.
- Deep **Kubernetes**, **ArgoCD**, **Helm**, **Terraform** experience.
- **GCP** familiarity, cloud cost management.
- FinOps tooling (e.g., **Kubecost**, **GCP Cloud Billing**).
- CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling.
- Observability (**Prometheus**, **Datadog**), on-call rotation.
- **FedRAMP** certification a plus.

## Benefits
- Generous cash and equity compensation.
- Remote-first culture.
- Health insurance, 401k matching, stipends for office setup, meals, learning.

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