Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Siftstack — Marina Del Rey, CA

## About Sift

In This Role, You'll:

• 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.

The Skillset You'll Bring:

• 3+ years of relevant distributed systems experience focusing on designing and managing cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and container orchestration platforms.
• Passion for building and operating developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.
• Knowledge of automated testing best practices and frameworks, ensuring software reliability through integration, performance, and end-to-end testing in distributed systems.
• You're excited by the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups.
• You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy.
• You enjoy working collaboratively with a broad range of job functions and roles.
• Experience with our tech stack: Go, Java, React, TypeScript, Kafka/Redpanda, Flink, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform/CDK
• Or equivalent distributed systems
• Good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, networking, and service architecture in multi-region multi-cloud setups.

Engineering At Sift:

• 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

Location:

Eligibility: