Senior Software Engineer, Sift
Identity Protection
Fraud prevention
Open for applications
Fraud prevention
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
Sift's mission is to help everyone trust the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java
- 3+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems, with excellent debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills
- Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL database modeling and design
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, valuing team success above individual accomplishments
- A self-starter attitude with a quick learning curve
Desirable
- Experience with stream processing frameworks such as Apache Flink, Apache Beam, or Dataflow
- Familiarity with HBase, BigTable, Kafka, ZooKeeper
- Experience with practical challenges in ML systems, including feature extraction and definition, data validation, training, monitoring, and management of features and models
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity Protection team, you will collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to develop and deliver key Identity Protection features that blend machine learning with distributed systems
- Build highly scalable, distributed services capable of processing hundreds of millions of events per day
- Partner with product management to define and scope project requirements
- Design and implement engineering solutions to solve complex customer challenges at scale
- Collaborate across engineering teams to deliver reliable and efficient products
- Contribute to evolving and improving engineering practices within the team
Our take
eCommerce sales are growing, unfortunately for online retailers, so too is payment fraud. In a landscape where 84% of first-time shoppers with smaller merchants are concerned about data security, retailers have to find ways to earn trust.
Sift is one company that sets out to prevent digital fraud by verifying customer identities and payment methods, giving its clients, who include Twitter, McDonalds Harry’s, DoorDash, and Poshmark, the ability to confidently gain trust from their own customers.
Worldwide, sift serves tens of thousands of websites and apps and analyses over 70B account sign ups and purchases each month. Building on its growth and successful fundraising efforts, Sift acquired longtime partner Chargeback, a leader in real-time dispute management for merchants and passwordless authentication company Keyless. These acquisitions allow Sift to offer its customers a more complete solution moving forward.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Mar 2018
$53m
SERIES D
Total funding: $156.6m
Company benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- 401k plan
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Wellness reimbursement
- Education reimbursement
- Flexible time off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Tan
(Executive Chairman)Having studied at the University of Washington, Jason spent almost 3 years as a Zillow Software Design Engineer, before joining Optify and working as CTO of BuzzLabs for a year. They founded Sift in June 2011, serving initially as CEO and since January 2021 as Executive Chairman.
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