# Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
**Company:** [Siftstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/siftstack)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Marina Del Rey, CA
**Salary:** $170K-$220K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, Go, Terraform, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana
**Posted:** 2025-10-27
> Designs and maintains scalable infrastructure for real-time telemetry platform, focusing on cloud/on-prem deployments, monitoring, and automation. Requires 8+ years in distributed systems with hands-on Kubernetes, Docker, and multi-cloud experience.
## Job Description
## 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
- 8+ years of relevant distributed systems experience focusing on designing and managing cloud-based environments (e.g., **AWS**, **Azure**, **GCP**).
- Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e.g., **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.
- Experience with our tech stack: **Go**, **Java**, **React**, **TypeScript**, **Kafka/Redpanda**, **Flink**, **AWS**, **Azure**, **GCP**, **Docker**, **Kubernetes**, **Terraform/CDK** or equivalent distributed systems.
- Good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, networking, and service architecture in multi-region multi-cloud setups.

## Engineering at SIFT (Relevant Technologies)
- **Web frontend & backend**: ECharts, **Go**, gRPC, **PostgreSQL**, Protobuf, Radix, **React**, Redux, **TypeScript**.
- **Data**: Arrow, DataFusion, **Flink**, Parquet, Rust.
- **Infrastructure**: Argo CD, **AWS**, **Docker**, GitHub Actions, Grafana, **Kubernetes**, Kustomize, Linux, Prometheus, Terragrunt.

## Compensation
- Salary range: $170,000 - $220,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.
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