Product Manager - SRE and Data Engineer

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. The Product Manager for SRE & Data Engineering will oversee technical engineering teams, manage cloud budgets, and lead initiatives in data platforms, AI automation, and security compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Define, monitor, and enforce error budgets to ensure 99.99% product availability
• Create and execute production system scaling strategies and lead cloud infrastructure operational maintenance (e.g., Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster consolidation)
• 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)
• 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
• Ensure the data architecture is structured to support advanced analytics and Machine Learning models, and prepare clean, accessible datasets for Data Scientists
• 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

Requirements:

• 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