Role & Company Overview
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
We’re Sift, a fast-growing startup in El Segundo (we require 2 days a week in the office) founded by former SpaceX software engineers backed by the best investors in the sector.
As an early member of the engineering team, you will build and automate foundational systems for reliability, security, performance, developer velocity, and scale and work cross functionally, supporting the engineering, product, design, customer success, support, and sales functions. You should be passionate about working closely with companies solving complex engineering challenges, including satellite constellations, renewable energy, and autonomous transportation.
- In This Role, You'll:Design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions to support our growing platform and customer base.
- Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application performance and reliability.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure proactive identification and resolution of issues.
- Automate deployment processes and streamline infrastructure management tasks using modern DevOps tools and methodologies.
- Evolve our backend architecture/infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments.
- Work with the team to set and prioritize our roadmap to maximize customer impact.
- Lead initiatives to improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
The Skillset You'll Bring:7+ years of relevant experience with a focus on designing and managing cloud-baed environments (eg., AWS, Azure, GCP). Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and container orchestration platforms. Passion for building and productionizing developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems. You're excited by the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups. You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy. You enjoy working collaboratively with a broad range of job functions and roles. Experience with our tech stack: Go, Java, React, TypeScript, Kafka/Redpanda, Flink, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform/CDK Good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, traffic routing, service architecture in multi-region setup.
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