Job Description

Who are you?

You have a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions. You are a strong engineer who thinks of infrastructure as code. You love the idea of building immutable infrastructure and multi-AZ/multi-region fault-tolerant systems that are anti-fragile. While you understand the need for monitoring and alerting, you dream of building self-healing systems. You believe in collaboration, acting as a force multiplier, and making the right tradeoffs. And you have been looking for an opportunity to join a well-funded startup where you can use your powers for good (in Sift’s case, to help eliminate fraud on the internet).

Team:

Sift’s Data Platform team is responsible for making Sift’s data easy to use, understand, and communicate. This team ensures the availability, correctness, and data privacy compliance of information critical for Sift’s day-to-day operations. Our customers include not just Sift’s the data science product teams, but also our sales, services, and business operations teams.

Our R&D team consists of over 100 people, 30+ are based in Ukraine. We are going to have 4+ Software engineers in the Ukraine R&D team who will be part of our Platform Services team.

Tech stack:

• GCP
• Terraform
• GKE
• Vault
• Jenkins
• Snowflake
• Java 11
• Python 3

Opportunities for you:

• Professional growth: quarterly Growth Cycles instead of performance review;
• Experience: knowledge sharing through biweekly Tech Talks sessions. You will learn how to build projects that handle petabytes of data, have small latency and high fault tolerance;
• Business trips and the annual Sift Summit, in 2022 Summit takes place in California;
• Hybrid work approach: you can choose where you work better remotely or in the office.

What would make you a good fit:

• 5+ years of experience as DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer;
• Extensive experience building & managing cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP;
• Experience solving problems with production systems, and building solutions and automation to prevent them from reoccurring;
• Proven experience with automation and knowledge of configuration management tools;
• Experience building infrastructure as code and automating infrastructure provisioning steps, such as CloudFormation/Terraform;
• Strong experience with monitoring and alerting systems, both open source and commercial;
• Experience with programming languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Scala or Go;
• Familiarity with Docker and container clustering technologies like Kubernetes, GKE, or AWS ECS.

What you’ll do:

• Build immutable infrastructure and multi-AZ/multi-region fault-tolerant systems that are anti-fragile;
• Multi-region deployment: deploying Bigtable cluster which spans multiple regions (how can we make a specific customer stick to a specific region, sticky sessions at region level);
• Local development and testing as fast and painless as possible;
• Create Dynamic environments (complete env to a specific service talking to other env.;
• Bot - deployment to monitoring via slack.

A little about us:

Sift is the leading innovator in Digital Trust & Safety. Hundreds of disruptive, forward-thinking companies like Zillow, and Twitter trust Sift to deliver outstanding customer experience while preventing fraud and abuse.

The Sift engine powers Digital Trust & Safety by helping companies stop fraud before it happens. But it’s not just another anti-fraud platform: Sift enables businesses to tailor experiences to each customer according to the risk they pose. That means fraudsters experience friction, but honest users do not. Sift allows businesses to scale, win, and thrive in the digital era by drawing on insights from our global network of customers.

Benefits and Perks:

• A compensation package that consists of financial compensation, a biannual 5% bonus, and stock options;
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage;
• 50$ for sport and wellness;
• Education reimbursement: books, education courses, conferences;
• Flexible time off: we follow an unlimited vacation approach;
• Tuned work schedule to Kyiv timezone despite US offices location: biweekly demo sessions are optional for our team and we watch them from recording;
• Mental Health Days: additional 4 day-offs;
• English courses and social activities inside the company that allows improving your public speaking and language.

Our interview:
We follow the same process for all teams, technical interview consists of 2 parts:

• 45 min technical phone interview with the engineering manager, 1 coding task Leetcode medium level like
• On-site interview: 4 sessions, 45 mins each, that cover coding, system design, experience, and soft skills

During our sessions, you will have the opportunity to learn about company culture, meet engineers from your team and discuss distributed system problems. You will have time for all interesting questions and get transparency regarding your future responsibilities and the project.

Sift is an equal opportunity employer. We make better decisions as a business when we can harness diversity in our experience, data, and background. Sift is working toward building a team that represents the worldwide customers that we serve, inclusive of people from all walks of life who can bring their full selves to work every day.

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