About the team: 

The Applications Team bridges the gap between our machine learning at scale and our customers' needs. By combining a strong sense of what is right for the customer with knowledge of big data and distributed systems, we provide a seamless way for our customers to make decisions, learn insights and navigate the ever-changing world of fraud fighting without needing to understand the complex technology underneath. That means creating a web application that distills complex ML signals, automation tools running on a highly-available multi-service architecture, and providing customer-facing analytics tooling to make endless streams of data understandable, actionable and usable.

What we’re looking for: 

As an engineer on the Applications team, you will be designing and building systems that enables Sift’s customers to act and respond to machine learning insights in real time. Running MapReduce over hundreds of Hadoop nodes, designing HBase tables for terabytes of data, and building real-time, high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems are all everyday parts of the job. Additionally, you will always be thinking about our customers and ensuring that the software we write is focused on solving their real-world problems.

What you’ll do: 

• Enable Sift’s customers to act and respond to our machine learning insights in real time.
• Create distributed workflow systems that automate our key customers’ business processes
• Design and build systems that aggregate large quantities of customer data to help customers visualize and understand their business.
• Build highly scalable, distributed microservices that can handle hundreds of millions of events per day

What would make you a strong fit: 

• 5+ years creating succinct, performant, and easily readable code in Java, C#, Scala or Go
• 5+ years designing API servers that have integrated and scaled with different customers
• Experience using large-scale NoSQL databases like HBase or Cassandra
• Experience with distributed systems and/or highly scalable, customer-facing applications
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS)
• Strong communication & collaboration skills, and a belief that team output is more important than individual output
• BS in Computer Science or related field

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."