Position: Java Developer (Infrastructure Engineer)
Company: Alcor
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

Sift is the leading innovator in Digital Trust & Safety.  Hundreds of disruptive, forward-thinking companies like Airbnb, Patreon, Zoosk, and ChowNow trust Sift to deliver an outstanding customer experience while preventing fraud and abuse. The Sift engine powers Digital Trust & Safety by helping companies stop fraud before it happens. But it’s not just another anti-fraud platform: Sift enables businesses to tailor experiences to each customer according to the risk they pose. That means fraudsters experience friction, but honest users do not. By drawing on insights from our global network of customers, Sift allows businesses to scale, win, and thrive in the digital era.

**Beneﬁts and Perks:**

- Competitive total compensation package
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Wellness reimbursement
- Education reimbursement
- Flexible time oﬀ

**Areas Of Focus And Expertise Include:**

- distributed systems (microservices, sharded computations)
- interprocess messaging and coordination (Kafka, Zookeeper, service meshes like Istio)
- observability (distributed tracing, logging, performance, and application monitoring)
- build systems, test systems, cloud-native deployment systems

**Who You Are:**

- 4+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Proficiency in object-oriented languages such as Java, Python
- Proficiency in at least one cloud-native or messaging technology such as -Kubernetes, Istio, containerization, Kafka, etc.
- Proficiency with relational and non-relational data stores
- Proficiency in CI/CD, monitoring, and logging systems
- Expertise in any of the above technical requirements is a  plus