- Shipped products to users at scale: large data volumes, significant active user counts, or deep technical complexity
- Shipped LLM-powered features
- Built agentic systems: multi-step tool use, planning loops, context management, and evals
- Designed tool ecosystems for agents, including MCP
- Worked with sandboxed or isolated execution of generated code
- Operated services in production (Kubernetes, observability, incident response)
- Worked with streaming or time-series data systems (Kafka, Flink, TimescaleDB)
- A personal ecosystem of AI dev tooling: custom agents, skills, scripts, or workflows built to ship faster
- A background in time-series data, scientific computing, or hardware test and telemetry
- Built internal agentic tooling that accelerates an engineering org
Engineering at Sift
You'll have the opportunity to help evolve and scale our platform because we're still in the early stages of building the product. Relevant technologies include:
- Web frontend & backend: ECharts, Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Protobuf, Radix, React, Redux, and TypeScript
- Data: Arrow, DataFusion, Flink, Parquet, and Rust
- Infrastructure: Argo CD, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Kubernetes, Kustomize, Linux, Prometheus, and Terragrunt
Location
Sift’s headquarters is in Marina Del Rey, CA (Next to LAX). We collaborate in person twice a week—on Mondays and Thursdays—and come together for a full week every two months. We are open to relocating candidates to LA or working from our San Francisco office for the right candidate.
Salary range: $180,000 - $230,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.
Eligibility
U.S. Person Required: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual such as an asylee or refugee in compliance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) / EAR (Export Administration Regulations) regulations.