Product Manager - SRE and Data Engineer at Sardine

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Who we are:</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Our culture:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation. </p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>Role Overview</strong></h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">The Product Manager for SRE &amp; 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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Infrastructure &amp; SRE Operations</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">System Reliability: Define, monitor, and enforce error budgets to ensure 99.99% product availability.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Scaling: Create and execute production system scaling strategies and lead cloud infrastructure operational maintenance (e.g., Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster consolidation).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">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)</p></li></ul></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Data Architecture &amp; AI Initiatives</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Table &amp;