Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

🕒 August 9, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $170k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Sift

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🚀 Aerospace

Aerospace • Transportation • Defense

Sift is a unified observability platform designed for modern machines, specializing in data ingestion, storage, visualization, and review tailored for the complexities of hardware telemetry. It provides code-free insights and streamlines data management across the hardware lifecycle, critical for industries such as aerospace, transportation, and defense. Sift accelerates mission-critical engineering by simplifying telemetry processes, allowing organizations to focus on innovation and efficiency while leveraging real-time data insights.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Benefits