Staff Software Engineer, Data
Sift Stack, Inc.8 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build a horizontally scalable platform for ingesting millions of hardware sensor data points per second.
- Develop durable, efficient database solutions to support real-time reads and large-scale analytics workloads.
- Pioneer data architecture by integrating recent innovations in streaming and storage.
- Help define engineering culture, standards, and processes.
- Collaborate closely with peers on architecture, design, code reviews, and scaling strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another STEM discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or data engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience with event-time-based stream processing or streaming SQL systems.
- Proficiency with relational and time-series databases.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems or low-latency backend services.
- Familiarity with DevOps and cloud infrastructure tools.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving.
Benefits
- Salary range of $200,000 - $250,000 per year plus equity.
- Flexible work arrangements with in-person collaboration twice a week.
- Opportunities for relocation to LA or working from the San Francisco office.
Tech Stack
Apache BeamApache FlinkApache KafkaAWSDockerGitHub ActionsGoGrafanagRPCKubernetesLinuxPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactRustTerraformTypeScript