Staff Cloud Platform Engineer, Sift
Core Infrastructure
$164.2-222k
OTE
Fraud prevention
Be an early applicant
Fraud prevention
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$164.2-222k
OTE
201-500 employees
Company mission
Sift's mission is to help everyone trust the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer focused on infrastructure/platform services or in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Scala, or Python
- Experience designing and implementing distributed systems
- Experience building and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP
- Expertise in building infrastructure as code and automating provisioning processes using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
- Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and alerting systems, both open-source and commercial
- Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes, GKE, or AWS ECS
- Strong experience troubleshooting and resolving production system issues, with a focus on building automated solutions to prevent future occurrences
- Proven expertise in automation and a solid understanding of configuration management tools
- You have a deep understanding of large-scale computing and approach infrastructure as code
- You're passionate about designing and building immutable infrastructure and resilient, multi-AZ/multi-region systems that can withstand failures
- While you recognize the importance of monitoring and alerting, your ultimate goal is to design self-healing systems
- Collaboration is key to you, and you strive to act as a force multiplier by making thoughtful trade-offs to drive success
What the job involves
- The Core Platform team maintains and optimizes 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
- Own the availability, performance, and scalability of Sift’s primary online storage systems and infrastructure
- Design and build immutable infrastructure and fault-tolerant, multi-AZ/multi-region systems that are resilient and self-healing
- Design and 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)
- Solve complex problems that arise from our unique data volume and request rate which may involve digging deep into data store and messaging internals
- Optimize local development and testing workflows to be fast, efficient, and seamless
- Design and implement services and libraries for components to interact with data stores, messaging layer and services platform
- Develop tools for monitoring, detecting faults, and automatically repairing distributed systems
- Provide design support to internal engineering teams for optimal usage of data stores, data growth planning, production workload optimization, messaging, caching and service platform
- 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, Airflow, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, Jenkins, Kafka, Snowflake, Spark, Java 11, Python 3, Ruby 2.7, Ruby on Rails
Application process
- Introduction interview: a 45-minute session with a recruiter to discuss your background and the role
- Hiring Manager interview: a 60-minute interview with the hiring manager to explore your fit for the position
- Virtual onsite loop with the team: a comprehensive session comprising four interviews lasting approximately 4 hours, covering system design, coding abilities, deep dive, and values and behavior-based conversations
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.
Steph
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 values
- Start with the customer - The customer is always top of mind. We strive to prioritize our audience’s needs, not our personal agenda
- Courage over comfort - We value vulnerability, invite candid feedback, and believe true growth happens when we leave our comfort zone
- Get Sift done - We value progress over perfection, always acting with urgency and grit—because we believe that passion and perseverance are the answer to adversity
- Ever better - We are continuously improving - our technology, our customer service, ourselves. We view mistakes as opportunities to be ever better
- Win as one team - We’re running toward the finish line, together. The sum is greater than the whole of its parts
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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