--- title: "Deputy Chief Information Security Officer" company: "Sardine" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/sardine" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/sardine-deputy-chief-information-security-officer-46dad1f6-5496-48b7-b4d0-1111adee0336" apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/a6273e60-b562-4cb7-90b1-2abbe9cfd738" workplace: remote location: "United States" remote_scope: "United States" employment_type: full-time seniority: executive role: devops-infrastructure region: united-states date_posted: 2026-05-13T13:10:48.481Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-26T15:15:11.266Z --- # Deputy Chief Information Security Officer **Sardine** — United States Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/a6273e60-b562-4cb7-90b1-2abbe9cfd738 ## About Sardine The top agentic risk platform used by leading banks and merchants worldwide to stop fraud in real-time, prevent AI-driven attacks, automate fraud & AML operations ## About the role **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.**Location:** Remote, United States **Travel:** Approximately once every 1–2 months, primarily in North America, with some potential international travel #### About the Role Sardine is hiring a Deputy Chief Information Security Officer to partner closely with our CISO and help scale our security program as we grow. This is a senior, high-impact role for a security leader who can operate across multiple areas, including application security, GRC, security operations, cloud and SaaS security, corporate IT, customer trust, and overall security strategy. You’ll serve as a trusted partner to the CISO, help identify and prioritize the highest-risk areas, and represent Sardine’s security program with internal teams, customers, prospects, auditors, and industry stakeholders. We’re looking for someone who is broad, pragmatic, technically fluent, and comfortable in customer-facing settings. The right person can balance strong security judgment with the pace and trade-offs of a fast-moving startup. #### What You’ll Do - Partner with the CISO on Sardine’s overall security strategy, roadmap, priorities, and execution - Help identify, prioritize, and address the highest-risk areas across the business - Support security reporting, executive updates, budgeting, vendor evaluation, and planning - Partner on key compliance initiatives, including PCI, SOC 2, ISO 27001, DORA, and future FedRAMP readiness - Support incident response and act as a deputy incident lead when needed - Work closely with Engineering on application security, secure SDLC, vulnerability management, threat modeling, and remediation - Assess and improve security across cloud infrastructure, SaaS tools, IAM, endpoint management, and corporate IT systems - Bring strong AppSec fluency, including understanding how code moves from design through production, CI/CD, testing, SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, and secrets management - Partner with Product and Engineering on security considerations for AI/ML systems, bot mitigation, and abuse prevention - Support customer-facing security conversations, RFPs, due diligence, security reviews, and executive briefings - Help build trust with enterprise customers by translating technical security concepts into clear business language - Partner cross-functionally with Legal, Sales, Engineering, Product, People, and IT - Champion a pragmatic security culture that enables the business while managing risk #### What We’re Looking For - 10–15+ years of cybersecurity experience, including 3+ years in a senior leadership role - Broad security background across multiple domains, not a single-specialty profile - Strong application security experience and ability to assess technical risk without needing to be hands-on coding daily - Experience operating in a startup, scale-up, or similarly resource-constrained environment where prioritization and pragmatism are critical - Ability to evaluate risk, stack-rank priorities, and focus on the highest-impact security work - Strong working knowledge of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, DORA, and ideally FedRAMP - Experience participating in or leading security incidents - Strong cloud, SaaS security, IAM, endpoint security, and zero-trust fundamentals - Familiarity with AI-assisted workflows and emerging AI/ML security risks - Customer-facing communication skills, with the ability to support sales, security reviews, and executive-level customer conversations - A collaborative, business-enabling approach to security — someone who helps teams find safe paths forward rather than defaulting to “no” - Strong leadership presence and ability to build trust with security, engineering, executive, and go-to-market teams - Experience in fintech, payments, security, bot mitigation, or regulated industries is a plus, but not required - Must be based in the United States and authorized to work in the US without sponsorship**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 your door - One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc. - Monthly meal stipend - Monthly social meet-up stipend - Annual health and wellness stipend - Annual Learning stipendJoin a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you. *To learn more about how we process your personal information and your rights in regards to your personal information as an applicant and Sardine employee, please visit our *[Applicant and Worker Privacy Notice](https://www.sardine.ai/applicant-and-worker-privacy-notice)*.* --- Source: Sardine's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/sardine-deputy-chief-information-security-officer-46dad1f6-5496-48b7-b4d0-1111adee0336