Software Engineer, Infrastructure

As an early engineer at SIFT, you won’t just write code—you’ll help define the architecture, shape the product, and influence the culture of a company focused on solving real engineering problems. If you’re looking for complex technical challenges and the opportunity to build foundational systems supporting complex machines from the ground up, we want to hear from you.

In This Role, You'll:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, 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 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:

• 3+ years of relevant distributed systems experience focusing on designing and managing cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and container orchestration platforms.
• Passion for building and operating developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.
• Knowledge of automated testing best practices and frameworks, ensuring software reliability through integration, performance, and end-to-end testing in distributed 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 or equivalent distributed systems.
• Good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, networking, and service architecture in multi-region multi-cloud setups.

Location: SIFT’s headquarters is in Marina del Rey, CA. We collaborate in person twice a week—on Mondays and Thursdays—and come together for a full week every two months. While we prefer team members to be local, we’re open to relocating candidates to LA or considering remote work from the San Francisco area for the right candidate.

Salary range: $150,000 - $200,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.

Eligibility: U.S. Person Required: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual such as an asylee or refugee in compliance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) / EAR (Export Administration Regulations) regulations.