Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Join Sift as a Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) and play a key role in defining the architecture, shaping the product, and influencing the culture of a company focused on solving real engineering problems. You will design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure solutions, collaborate with software engineers to optimize application performance, and implement monitoring and logging systems. You will also automate deployment processes, evolve our backend architecture, and lead initiatives to improve infrastructure reliability and cost efficiency. Enjoy top-tier health insurance, unlimited PTO, and a collaborative work environment.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions to support the growing platform and customer base.
• Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application performance and reliability, and implement monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.
• Automate deployment processes and streamline infrastructure management using modern DevOps tools and methodologies.
• Good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, networking, and service architecture in multi-region multi-cloud setups
• You're excited by the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups
• Or equivalent distributed systems
• Passion for building and operating developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering
• You enjoy working collaboratively with a broad range of job functions and roles
• Knowledge of automated testing best practices and frameworks, ensuring software reliability through integration, performance, and end-to-end testing in distributed systems
• 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
• You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and container orchestration platforms
• 8+ years of relevant distributed systems experience focusing on designing and managing cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)