Position: Senior Full-stack Engineer, Machine Learning Platform
Company: Sift
Experience required: 5y
Category: Python
English level: upper
Published: 2021-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

**About the team:**
At Sift we enhance trust and safety in the digital world with our AI driven technology platform. Our products deliver payment protection, ensure content integrity, and protect account defense for businesses around the world. The Machine Learning Platform team exists to enable product teams to construct and operate their production machine learning services as effectively as possible.

The team does this by providing a platform which handles the common needs of the product teams including production system integration, model training, model availability, health and monitoring infrastructure for model serving, and a streamlined model release process.

**What you’ll do:**
As a Senior Full-stack Engineer in the Machine Learning Platform team you will build tools and processes to manage, improve, and rapidly scale our platform. Specifically, you will:
- Design and build tools and processes to make the release of new machine learning models fast, easy, safe, and minimally disruptive.
- Participate in architecture discussions to meet the requirement to serve hundreds of machine learning models at thousands of queries per second.
- Ensure that our systems can continue to scale rapidly while addressing rapidly evolving product team needs.
- Implement scalable, low-latency, high-throughput, fault-tolerant, extensible, and easily maintainable data processing pipelines for both batch and real-time systems.
- Motivate, listen and empathize, and help engineers and data scientists to excel.

**What would make you a strong fit:**
- 5+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services
- Experience in creating succinct, performant, and easily readable code in Java or Python
- Experience in Javascript, HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
- Experience with RESTful services
- Strong communication & collaboration skills — a team-first, product-first mindset

**Nice To Have:**
- Familiarity with React
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS)
- Familiarity using SQL and NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with distributed systems and/or highly scalable, customer-facing applications

**A little about us:**
Sift is the leading innovator in Digital Trust & Safety. Hundreds of disruptive, forward-thinking companies like Airbnb, Zillow, and Twitter trust Sift to deliver 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