About the team:

Sift’s Developer Infrastructure team is responsible for owning the processes, systems and technologies that make our software engineers effective at their jobs. We own productivity tools that are key to making our engineers productive: including source-code repositories, containers, build-systems, deployment tools, and frameworks that allow for unit-testing, integration-testing. continuous-integration and continuous-deployment. In addition to tools and systems, we are evangelists for design-principles, processes and projects that promote quality, agile software development (like strong ownership and quality practices like metric-tracking and alarming). In addition we own AWS fleet management, security systems and practices.

Skills we value in this role:

Communication: Your customer will be the developer community, so the ability to motivate, teach, listen and empathize with software engineers is required. In this role you will be working to roll out new technologies, processes and practices that improves our ability to delivery high-quality code quickly.

Leadership: You’ll continue and strengthen our culture of mentorship – whether you’re doing the mentoring yourself, or just facilitating it. You’ll give regular feedback, coaching folks on how to work collaboratively and have productive conversations. And you’ll check in regularly with employees about their career goals to make sure they continue to learn and grow. In addition, you will hire additional top talent for your team, and manage performance for each member in your team

Project Management: You will be a driver of change and will own projects that your team is delivering. The Developer Infrastructure team's initiatives will only reach fruition with the help of the software teams across the company. You will skillfully delegate, get commitments, create schedules, hold teams accountable and escalate as needed to deliver cross team initiatives.

Process Improvement: We’re always looking for ways to work better together and seek to codify those learnings by developing repeatable processes, systems and tools. You’ll focus on making sure our engineering principles are nurtured and reinforced through process improvements.

What you’ll do:

• Own the systems and tools that enable the engineering organization to build, test, deploy and run production systems with the highest availability and performance
• Own the self-service tools for engineers to provision and scale infrastructure on public cloud platforms
• Own services frameworks for scalable development of microservices (service discovery, traffic routing, etc.)
• Champion SRE principles and best practices within the engineering organization to improve safety, reliability, and security of our services
• Work with engineers and leaders across the organization to improve developer productivity
• Build out the team to achieve the above goals 

What would make you a strong fit:

• 3+ years of leading teams & managing complex technical projects
• Experience building out and managing cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, with tools such as Terraform, Salt, Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of industry best practices
• Strong collaboration skills – experience working with product management, infrastructure, and other engineering teams

A little about us:

Sift is the leading innovator in Digital Trust & Safety. Hundreds of disruptive, forward-thinking companies like Airbnb, Patreon, Zoosk, and ChowNow trust Sift to deliver outstanding customer experience while preventing fraud and abuse.

The Sift engine powers Digital Trust & Safety by helping companies stop fraud before it happens. But it’s not just another anti-fraud platform: Sift enables businesses to tailor experiences to each customer according to the risk they pose. That means fraudsters experience friction, but honest users do not. By drawing on insights from our global network of customers, Sift allows businesses to scale, win, and thrive in the digital era.

Benefits and Perks:

• Competitive total compensation package
• 401k plan
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Wellness reimbursement
• Education reimbursement
• Flexible time off
• Catered meals

Sift is an equal opportunity employer. Our core value of “Be Tough On Ideas And Excellent To Each Other” is built on a foundation of diversity and inclusion; we work together to ensure the best ideas win. We hire people with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, because we know this makes us stronger, healthier, and more innovative. Our commitment to belonging enables us to bring our full selves to work so we can contribute our talents in meaningful ways and “Win As One Team."