### **About the team:**
Our API Platform team is responsible for several core functions of Sift’s
Digital Trust & Safety platform: bulk scoring and routing, up-to-the-minute
reporting on business metrics, as well as key customer integration points, all
of which work together to drive a seamless, accurate and fast solution for
identifying and stopping fraud at scale. We combine customizable tools and
powerful infrastructure to analyze and route all manner of transactions in our
ongoing effort to build trust on the Internet. If you enjoy planning for
scale, drawing on many engineering disciplines to solve difficult problems,
and building tremendous customer value in the process, this team is for you.
### **What we’re looking for:**
As a senior software engineer, you will work closely with product managers and
other engineering teams to deliver projects on time and mentor engineers on
the team. You are an experienced engineer who has built scalable distributed
systems and are equally adept at understanding concurrency problems as you are
at just getting things done.
### **What you’ll do:**
* Build highly scalable, distributed services that can handle hundreds of millions of events per day.
* Partner with product management to help scope and shape project requirements.
* Implement engineering solutions to address complex customer needs at scale.
* Collaborate with other engineers within the API Platform team as well as across other engineering teams.
* Help evolve and improve our engineering practices.
* Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, diagrams, code comments and maintain good code hygiene.
Technologies we use: Java, GCP (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigTable, BigQuery), Kafka,
DropWizard, gRPC
### **What would make you a strong fit:**
* 10+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java
* 3+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services
* Bachelor's Degree in computer science, math, engineering, hard science(s), or comparable industry experience
* Experience designing and maintaining scalable public APIs
* Extensive experience using large-scale NoSQL databases like HBase, Cassandra, or Bigtable
* Strong knowledge of data structures, distributed algorithms, and asynchronous architectures
* Strong familiarity with setting up, managing, and deploying to the cloud (e.g. AWS/GCP)
* Experience building data-intensive applications in data warehouse technologies like Snowflake or something similar.
* Strong communication & collaboration skills, and a belief that team output is more important than individual output
### **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. By
drawing on insights from our global network of customers, Sift allows
businesses to scale, win, and thrive in the digital era.
### **Benefits and Perks:**
* Competitive total compensation package
* 401k plan
* Medical, dental and vision coverage
* Wellness reimbursement
* Education reimbursement
* Flexible time off
### **Let’s Build It Together**
At Sift, we are intentionally building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive
workplace. We believe that diversity drives innovation, equity is a
fundamental right, and inclusion is a basic human need. We envision a place
where all Sifties feel secure sharing their authentic selves and diverse
experiences with their teams, their customers, and their community –
ultimately using this empowerment and authenticity to build trust and create a
safer Internet.
*This document provides transparency around the way in which Sift handles personal data of job applicants: _[_[https://sift.com/recruitment-privacy*](https://sift.com/recruitment-privacy)](https://sift.com/recruitment-privacy*%5D\(https://sift.com/recruitment-privacy\))
Sift focuses on SaaS, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Fraud Detection. Their
company has offices in San Francisco and Seattle. They have a large team
that's between 201-500 employees. To date, Sift has raised $106.6M of funding;
their latest round was closed on March 2018.
You can view their website at <https://sift.com> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/getsift),
[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/getsift), and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getsift).
