Staff Cloud Platform Engineer - Core Infra

February 6

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Sift is an industry leader in digital fraud management, offering robust AI-powered solutions to combat various forms of online fraud such as account takeovers, payment fraud, and chargebacks. With a scalable platform, Sift enables businesses to secure their operations through advanced decision-making and fraud detection technologies. Their platform is trusted by over 700 global brands, providing precise, user-level insights to turn fraud challenges into opportunities for scalable growth. Sift emphasizes the importance of partnerships and a strong community to enhance their fraud decisioning service, fostering secure business development across various sectors like e-commerce, fintech, and travel. Additionally, Sift is recognized for its insights and efforts in fraud industry leadership, featuring capabilities such as payment protection, account defense, and dispute management.

Machine Learning • Software as a Service (SaaS) • Fraud Detection • Predictive Analytics • Big Data

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

🔒 Cybersecurity

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Own the availability, performance, and scalability of Sift’s primary online storage systems and infrastructure • Design and build immutable infrastructure and fault-tolerant, multi-AZ/multi-region systems that are resilient and self-healing. • Design and Implement multi-region deployments, such as BigTable clusters spanning multiple regions, with strategies to ensure specific customers are routed to designated regions. • Solve complex problems that arise from our unique data volume and request rate. • Optimize local development and testing workflows to be fast, efficient, and seamless. • 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 automatically repairing distributed systems. • Provide design support to internal engineering teams for optimal usage of data stores, data growth planning, production workload optimization. • Participate in on-call support and incident response activities, providing 12/7 coverage approximately once every 3-4 weeks.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ 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. • Experience designing and implementing distributed systems. • 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. • Strong 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.

🏖️ Benefits

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