Job Description
About the team:
You will be joining Gravity - our Core Platform team - the foundation that powers Sift’s Digital Trust & Safety platform. We build the shared components, abstractions, and infrastructure that other engineering teams rely on to ship faster and smarter. Our customers are internal: we measure success by how much easier we make everyone else’s job, and by keeping the platform maintainable, cost-effective, and built to last.
This role is intentionally full-stack. We need someone who can follow a problem wherever it lives - whether that’s deep in backend logic or in a frontend component
BE Technical stack: Java, Dropwizard, GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, BigTable, Spanner Graph DB, Postgres, Redis, gRPC, Python, Apache Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery
FE Technical stack: ReactJS
What you’ll do:
Design and evolve highly scalable, distributed platform components that can reliably serve as shared building blocks across Sift’s ecosystem, even under heavy load
Deliver engineering solutions that address complex, cross-cutting customer and platform needs at scale, reducing the effort required for product teams to ship features
Collaborate closely with engineers within Gravity and partner teams to introduce and maintain shared services, data models, and libraries that multiple teams depend on
Continuously improve our platform engineering practices, tooling, and guardrails to simplify secure, compliant, and cost-effective operation of core systems
Opportunities for you:
Experience: Participate in highload platform and technical challenges to improve our core platform components, as well as building new capabilities
Professional growth: tri-annual Growth Cycles instead of performance review;
Knowledge Sharing: we have Tech Talks sessions. You will learn how to build components that handle petabytes of data and high fault tolerance
Culture for innovations: you can try your ideas on our bi-annual Hackathon
What would make you a strong fit:
5+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java;
3+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services;
2+ years of experience building React-based FE applications, preferable platform areas
Experience with data pipelines
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Strong communication & collaboration skills - a team-first, product-first mindset
Benefits and perks:
Competitive total compensation package
401k plan
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible lifestyle wallet
Learning & development wallet
Flexible time off
Our interview process:
Introduction interview with the recruiter (45 minutes)
Hiring Manager interview (45 minutes)
Virtual onsite loop with the team (4 hours)
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.
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