Software Engineer

Sift is an AI-powered fraud platform securing digital trust for leading global businesses. The Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and building resilient infrastructure, optimizing workflows, and developing automated solutions for deployment and monitoring.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build immutable infrastructure and fault-tolerant, multi-AZ/multi-region systems that are resilient and self-healing
• Implement multi-region deployments, such as BigTable clusters spanning multiple regions, with strategies to ensure specific customers are routed to designated regions (e.g., sticky sessions at the regional level)
• Optimize local development and testing workflows to be fast, efficient, and seamless
• Create dynamic environments that enable specific services to interact with other environments in real time
• Develop automated bot solutions for deployment and monitoring, integrating with Slack for streamlined updates
• Participate in on-call support and incident response activities, providing 12/7 coverage for one calendar week approximately once every 3-4 weeks

Requirements:

• 2+ 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
• Extensive 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
• 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