Remote Staff Cloud Platform Engineer- Core Infra

Description:

• The Core Platform team maintains and optimizes 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 owning the availability, performance, and scalability of Sift’s primary online storage systems and infrastructure.
• The role involves designing and building immutable infrastructure and fault-tolerant, multi-AZ/multi-region systems that are resilient and self-healing.
• The engineer will design and implement multi-region deployments, such as BigTable clusters spanning multiple regions, ensuring specific customers are routed to designated regions.
• The position requires solving complex problems arising from unique data volume and request rates, which may involve deep dives into data store and messaging internals.
• The engineer will optimize local development and testing workflows to be fast, efficient, and seamless.
• Responsibilities also include designing and implementing services and libraries for components to interact with data stores, messaging layers, and services platforms.
• The role involves developing tools for monitoring, detecting faults, and automatically repairing distributed systems.
• The engineer will provide design support to internal engineering teams for optimal usage of data stores, data growth planning, production workload optimization, messaging, caching, and service platforms.
• 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 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 are required.
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems is essential.
• Candidates must have 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 is necessary.
• 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.
• Strong 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 is required.

Benefits:

• The position offers a competitive total compensation package.
• A 401k plan is included as part of the benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage is provided.
• Wellness reimbursement is available to employees.
• Education reimbursement is offered to support continuous learning.
• Flexible time off is part of the benefits package.