Software Engineer, Sift
$120-155k
Fraud prevention
Open for applications
Fraud prevention
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$120-155k
201-500 employees
Company mission
Sift's mission is to help everyone trust the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 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 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
- 2+ 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
- Extensive 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
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 3.5 hours, covering system design, coding abilities, deep dive, and values and behavior-based conversations
- During these sessions, you will have the opportunity to learn about company culture, meet engineers or peers from your team, and discuss distributed system problems. You will have time for interesting questions and gain transparency regarding your future responsibilities and the project
Our take
As eCommerce sales are growing, so - unfortunately - is payment fraud. In a landscape where over 80% 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. It gives its clients, that include Twitter, McDonalds, Harry’s, DoorDash and Poshmark, the ability to confidently gain trust from their customers.
Worldwide, Sift serves tens of thousands of websites and apps. Building on its growth and successful fundraising efforts, the company acquired longtime partner Chargeback, and has now made a partnership with payabl to bring AI-driven fraud prevention to European merchants.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Mar 2018
$53m
SERIES D
Total funding: $156.8m
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 Chair & Founder)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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