USD per year
Software Engineer
Location
Remote - USA; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Engineering
Compensation
- Estimated Total Cash Compensation $120K – $155K • Offers Equity
The anticipated starting on-target earnings range for this role is listed above. This role may also be eligible for equity and other benefits. Sift takes into account many factors in determining compensation, including level, location, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. Therefore, the pay range / final offer may change or be modified in the future.
About the team:
The Core Platform team is responsible for maintaining and optimizing the data, infrastructure, messaging, and services platform that powers Sift’s online systems. We ensure these systems are always available, reliable, and performing at their best to meet customer needs. In the event of an outage or failure, we follow well-practiced recovery plans to restore services swiftly. Managing such complex, large-scale systems requires continuous monitoring and proactive maintenance to uphold these standards.
What you’ll do:
- Design and build immutable infrastructure and fault-tolerant, multi-AZ/multi-region systems that are resilient and self-healing.
- Implement multi-region deployments, such as BigTable clusters spanning multiple regions, with strategies to ensure specific customers are routed to designated regions (e.g., sticky sessions at the regional level).
- Optimize local development and testing workflows to be fast, efficient, and seamless.
- Create dynamic environments that enable specific services to interact with other environments in real time.
- Develop automated bot solutions for deployment and monitoring, integrating with Slack for streamlined updates.
- Participate in on-call support and incident response activities, providing 12/7 coverage for one calendar week approximately once every 3-4 weeks.
Technical stack:
GCP, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault,... Jenkins,... Kafka,... Snowflake,... Spark,... Java,... Python 3
What makes you a strong fit:
You have a deep understanding of large-scale computing and approach infrastructure as code. You're passionate about building immutable infrastructure and resilient,... multi-AZ/multi-region systems that can withstand failures. While you recognize importance of monitoring/alerting,... your ultimate goal is design self-healing systems. Collaboration is key to you,... strive to act as force multiplier by making thoughtful trade-offs to drive success.
Key Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience as Software Engineer focused on infrastructure/platform services or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Java,... Scala,... or Python.
- Extensive experience building/managing cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP.
- Expertise building infrastructure as code & automating provisioning using CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Proficiency setting up/managing monitoring & alerting systems (open-source & commercial).
- Familiarity with Docker & container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes/GKE/AWS ECS.
- Experience troubleshooting/resolving production system issues with focus on automated solutions preventing future occurrences.
- Proven expertise in automation & solid understanding of configuration management tools.
Our interview process:
- Introduction interview: 45-minute session with recruiter discussing background & role.
- Hiring Manager interview: 60-minute interview exploring fit for position.
- Virtual onsite loop: four interviews approx 3.5 hours covering system design,... coding abilities,... deep dive,... values & behavior-based conversations.
During sessions you learn about company culture,... meet engineers/peers from team,... discuss distributed system problems,... have time for questions & gain transparency regarding responsibilities/project.
A little about us:
Sift is AI-powered fraud platform securing digital trust for leading global businesses.... Deep investments in machine learning & user identity,... data network scoring 1 trillion events/year,... commitment to long-term customer success empower >700 customers grow fearlessly.... Global brands rely on Sift unlock growth & deliver seamless consumer experiences.... Visit us at [sift.com](https://sift.com) & follow us on [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com).
Benefits and Perks:
- Competitive total compensation package
- 401k plan
- Medical,dental,and vision coverage
- Wellness reimbursement
- Education reimbursement
- Flexible time off
Let’s build it together:
At Sift,we intentionally build diverse,equitable,inclusive workplace.... Believe diversity drives innovation,equity fundamental right,inclusion basic human need.... Envision place where all Sifties feel secure sharing authentic selves & diverse experiences with teams/customers/community–ultimately using empowerment/authenticity build trust create safer Internet.
Sift is an AI-powered fraud prevention platform that secures digital trust. It helps stop fraud fast and grow revenue faster by protecting the customer journey. Sift powers fraud prevention for 700+ global brands, exposing threats like account takeover, payment fraud, and first-party abuse with precise, split-second decisioning accuracy at scale. Industry leaders such as Poshmark, Swan Bitcoin, Harry’s, and Patreon rely on Sift to protect customers and preserve millions of dollars in revenue. Sift enables winning fraud teams to unlock more revenue while cutting risk. The platform leverages a global data network of approximately 1 trillion annual events representing 700+ global brands.
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