Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

• As an early engineer at Sift, you won’t just write code—you’ll help define the architecture, shape the product, and influence the culture of a company focused on solving real engineering problems
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions to support our growing platform and customer base
• Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application performance and reliability
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure proactive identification and resolution of issues
• Automate deployment processes and streamline infrastructure management using modern DevOps tools and methodologies
• Evolve our backend architecture/infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments
• Work with the team to set and prioritize our roadmap to maximize customer impact
• Lead initiatives to improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
• You’ll have the opportunity to help evolve and scale our platform because we’re still in the early stages of building the product. Relevant technologies include:
• Web frontend & backend: ECharts, Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Protobuf, Radix, React, Redux, and TypeScript
• Data: Arrow, DataFusion, Flink, Parquet, and Rust
• Infrastructure: Argo CD, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Kubernetes, Kustomize, Linux, Prometheus, and Terragrunt

### Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Top-tier health insurance: Medical, Vision, & Dental
• Free lunch, snacks, & coffee- If you’re looking for complex technical challenges and the opportunity to build foundational systems supporting complex machines from the ground up, we want to hear from you
• Good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, networking, and service architecture in multi-region multi-cloud setups
• You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy
• Knowledge of automated testing best practices and frameworks, ensuring software reliability through integration, performance, and end-to-end testing in distributed systems
• You enjoy working collaboratively with a broad range of job functions and roles
• You’re excited by the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups
• Or equivalent distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and container orchestration platforms
• Experience with our tech stack: Go, Java, React, TypeScript, Kafka/Redpanda, Flink, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform/CDK
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems
• Passion for building and operating developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering
• 3+ years of relevant distributed systems experience focusing on designing and managing cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• U.S. Person Required: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual such as an asylee or refugee in compliance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) / EAR (Export Administration Regulations) regulations