Sift Stack
Staff Backend Engineer
Marina Del Rey, CA · Staff+
Work authorization required$200k-$250kDetected 267 days ago
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About the role
- Salary range: $200,000 - $250,000 per year.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend systems that process and store large volumes of real-time telemetry data.
- Own features end-to-end, from design to post-launch improvement.
- Collaborate with Frontend, Design, and Data teams to ensure features solve real customer problems.
- Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- We collaborate in person twice a week-on Mondays and Thursdays-and come together for a full week every two months.
- Experience building and scaling APIs (REST, gRPC/Protobuf).
Requirements
- 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.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another STEM discipline
- 7+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure roles
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals-state, fault tolerance, recovery.
- Experience with Go, Rust, or Python, and strong Linux/networking fundamentals.
- Experience with streaming or time-series data systems (Kafka, Flink, TimescaleDB, etc.).
- Experience with performance tuning and profiling at query or service layers.
Skills
- Sift is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams.
- Sift turns high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical systems.
Compensation
- $200,000 - $250,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.
- Salary range: $200,000 - $250,000 per year.
Company info
- We are open to relocating candidates to LA or working from our San Francisco office for the right candidate.
Visa & Work Authorization
- U.S. Person Required: Must be a U
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