Product Manager - SRE and Data Engineer

About the role

Sardine is looking for a technical product leader to manage our internal Platform-as-a-Service and Data-as-a-Service offerings. You will guide engineering teams in maintaining high-availability systems, optimizing cloud expenditures, and building data architectures that support our fraud detection platform.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Establish and track error budgets to maintain 99.99% system availability.
• Develop strategies for scaling production systems and managing GKE cluster consolidation.
• Manage the GCP cloud budget, identifying opportunities to reduce operational costs by 25%.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to tune BigQuery tables and ETL/ELT pipelines for better performance.
• Prepare data structures that support Machine Learning models and advanced analytics.
• Coordinate with Legal and Security teams to enforce GDPR and CCPA compliance through Cloud IAM and data access controls.

Requirements

• Experience managing technical personnel such as engineers and SREs.
• Background in leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Proficiency in GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and SRE methodologies.
• Experience with Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, BI, and AI/ML product deployment.
• Ability to manage large cloud budgets and analyze infrastructure pricing.
• Skill in communicating complex technical concepts to executive stakeholders.

Skills & tools

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• AWS
• Terraform
• Kubernetes (GKE)
• BigQuery
• ETL/ELT pipelines
• Cloud IAM
• GDPR and CCPA compliance

Practical notes

• Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents in the US and Canada.
• Company provides a 4% 401k or RRSP match for US and Canada staff.
• Includes a MacBook Pro, a home office setup stipend, monthly meal and social stipends, and an annual learning budget.
• Offers flexible paid time off, a year-end break, and early exercise options for equity.