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SiftstackSiftstackMarina del Rey, CA

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Builds and maintains scalable infrastructure for real-time telemetry platform supporting mission-critical systems. Requires 3+ years in distributed systems, expertise in cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, Docker, and DevOps tools.

150k – 200k/yr
Hybrid3+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • 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

  • 3+ years of relevant distributed systems experience focusing on designing and managing cloud-based environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (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.
  • Good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, networking, and service architecture in multi-region multi-cloud setups.
  • Excited by the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups.
  • Pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy.
  • Enjoy working collaboratively with a broad range of job functions and roles.

Nice-to-Haves / Tech Stack

  • Experience with: Go, Java, React, TypeScript, Kafka/Redpanda, Flink, Terraform/CDK.
  • Relevant technologies: ECharts, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Protobuf, Radix, Redux, Arrow, DataFusion, Parquet, Rust, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Kustomize, Linux, Prometheus, Terragrunt.

Compensation

  • Salary range: $150,000 - $200,000 per year.
  • Plus equity and benefits.

Skills

KubernetesDockerAWSGCPAzureTerraformGoPrometheusGrafanaCI/CDKafkaFlinkgRPCPostgresArgo Cd

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