# Staff Engineer
**Company:** [Sift](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sift)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Salary:** $190K-$260K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Java, REST APIs, API Design, Dropwizard, Snowflake, Spanner, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, GCP, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Bigtable, Data Pipelines, Data Modeling
**Posted:** 2026-06-22
> Experienced engineer to architect scalable customer-facing services, APIs, and web applications for an AI fraud platform. Requires 8+ years building highly-available services and strong Java skills.
## Job Description
## What you’ll do
- Architect and implement engineering solutions to address complex customer needs at scale
- Develop, build, and maintain both internal and external facing API platforms and endpoints to enable customer integration, automation, and powering our customer-facing Console web application
- Partner with product management to help scope and shape project requirements
- Collaborate with other engineers within the team as well as across other engineering teams
- Help evolve and improve our engineering practices

## What would make you a strong fit
- 8+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience with RESTful services, API design, and web technologies
- Experience working in Java
- Strong communication & collaboration skills - a team-first, product-first mindset
- Experience with data pipelines, data modeling, and data warehousing

## Technologies we use
Dropwizard, Snowflake, Spanner, Postgres, Redis, MongoDb, GCP, Elasticsearch, Kafka, BigTable
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