Staff Software Engineer, Data
Sift Stack, Inc.11 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 and efficient database solutions for real-time reads and large-scale analytics workloads.
- Advance data architecture through streaming and storage innovations, including cloud-native and diskless designs.
- Help define engineering culture, standards, and processes.
- Collaborate with engineers on architecture, design, code reviews, and scaling strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another STEM discipline.
- At least 7 years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or data engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience with event-time-based stream processing or streaming SQL systems such as Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, or Beam.
- Proficiency with relational and time-series databases such as PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, or TimescaleDB.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems or low-latency backend services, ideally written in Go, Rust, or Python.
- Familiarity with DevOps and cloud infrastructure tools including Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD, and Terraform.
- Strong communication and collaborative problem-solving skills.
- Familiarity with hardware telemetry, high-throughput ingest pipelines, or columnar storage formats such as Apache Arrow and Parquet is a bonus.
- Experience building resilient, performant systems that scale to billions of records is a bonus.
- U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, or protected-individual status is required for ITAR and EAR compliance.
Benefits
- Hybrid collaboration from Marina Del Rey headquarters twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays, with a full in-person week every two months
- Relocation to Los Angeles or work from the San Francisco office may be available
- Equity and benefits are included
- U.S. Person eligibility is required under ITAR and EAR regulations
Tech Stack
Apache BeamApache FlinkApache KafkaArgo CDAWSDockerGitHub ActionsGoGrafanagRPCKubernetesLinuxPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactRustTerraformTypeScript
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Sift Stack, Inc.
Sift Stack builds a data infrastructure and telemetry analysis platform for hardware engineering teams in aerospace, defense, autonomy, and energy. Its software ingests, stores, and analyzes high-frequency machine data to automate anomaly detection, accelerate testing, and support operations for rockets, satellites, autonomous vehicles, and other mission-critical systems. Founded in 2022 and privately held, Sift is headquartered in El Segundo, California, and was started by former SpaceX engineers.