About the team:

The Core Platform team is responsible for the data/infrastructure/messaging/services platform that powers Sift’s online systems. We make sure they are available and performant at all times to serve our customers. In the events of outage and failure we will have practiced plans to be able to recover. These are very large and complicated systems that require constant vigilance to meet these goals.

What you’ll do:

• Own the availability, performance and scalability of Sift’s systems
• Solve complex problems that arise from our unique data volume and request rate
• 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 automatic repairing 
• Provide design support to internal engineering teams for optimal usage of data stores, data growth planning, and production workload optimization

What would make you a strong fit:

• Strong experience with Java, Python, Scala or Go
• Solid experience building and developing distributed systems with millions/billions of transactions per day.
• Experience building/supporting real-time and offline data pipelines.
• Experience building and debugging tools on Linux environments
• Experience running large-scale data storage systems that span across multiple data centers
• Understanding the planning process and key indicators of a successfully implemented infrastructure solution

Bonus points:

• Experience with BigTable, HBase, Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, Redshift or Memcache
• Familiar with configuration management and automation systems such as Terraform Salt, etc.
• Familiar with Docker and Kubernetes

 A little about us:

Sift is the leading innovator in Digital Trust & Safety. Hundreds of disruptive, forward-thinking companies like Airbnb, Zillow, and Twitter 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. We make better decisions as a business when we can harness diversity in thought, experience, data, and background. Sift is working toward building a team that represents the worldwide customers that we serve, inclusive of people from all walks of life who can bring their full selves to work every day, so we can Win as One Team.