Description:

The Core Platform team is responsible for maintaining and optimizing the data, infrastructure, messaging, and services platform that powers Sift’s online systems.
The team ensures these systems are always available, reliable, and performing at their best to meet customer needs.
In the event of an outage or failure, the team follows well-practiced recovery plans to restore services swiftly.
Managing complex, large-scale systems requires continuous monitoring and proactive maintenance to uphold these standards.
Responsibilities include designing and building immutable infrastructure and fault-tolerant, multi-AZ/multi-region systems that are resilient and self-healing.
The role involves implementing multi-region deployments, optimizing local development and testing workflows, and creating dynamic environments for real-time service interaction.
The engineer will develop automated bot solutions for deployment and monitoring, integrating with Slack for streamlined updates.
Participation in on-call support and incident response activities is required, providing 12/7 coverage for one calendar week approximately once every 3-4 weeks.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 5+ 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 are required.
Extensive experience building and managing cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS is necessary.
Expertise in building infrastructure as code and automating provisioning processes using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform is essential.
Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and alerting systems, both open-source and commercial, is required.
Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes, GKE, or AWS ECS is important.
Experience troubleshooting and resolving production system issues, with a focus on building automated solutions to prevent future occurrences, is needed.
Proven expertise in automation and a solid understanding of configuration management tools are required.

Competitive compensation includes financial rewards, an annual 5% bonus, and stock options.
A health insurance stipend is provided to support medical and health-related needs.
A sports and wellness stipend encourages a healthy and active lifestyle.
A work-from-home stipend supports the creation of a productive home office setup.
Education reimbursement is available for books, education courses, and conferences to support professional growth.
Mental health days are offered as additional paid time off to prioritize well-being.
Language and public speaking development opportunities, including English courses and social activities, are provided to enhance communication skills.