Position: Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: Sift
Experience required: 5y
Category: DevOps
English level: upper
Published: 2023-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Who are you?**
You have a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions. You are a strong engineer who thinks of infrastructure as code. You love the idea of building immutable infrastructure and multi-AZ/multi-region fault-tolerant systems that are anti-fragile. While you understand the need for monitoring and alerting, you dream of building self-healing systems.  You believe in collaboration, acting as a force multiplier, and making the right tradeoffs. And you have been looking for an opportunity to join a well-funded startup where you can use your powers for good (in Sift’s case, to help eliminate fraud on the internet).

**Team:**
The Core Platform team is responsible for the data/infrastructure/messaging/services platform that powers Sift’s online systems. We make sure they are available and performant at all times to serve our customers. In the events of outage and failure, we will have practiced plans to be able to recover. These large and complicated systems require constant vigilance to meet these goals.

Our R&D team consists of over 100 people, 40+ are based in Ukraine. We are going to have 4+ Software engineers in the Ukraine R&D team who will be part of our Platform Services team.

**Tech stack:**
- GCP
- Terraform
- GKE
- Vault
- Jenkins
- Snowflake
- Java 11
- Python 3

**Opportunities for you:**
- Professional growth: quarterly Growth Cycles instead of performance review;
- Experience: knowledge sharing through biweekly Tech Talks sessions. You will learn how to build projects that handle petabytes of data, have small latency and high fault tolerance;
- Business trips and the annual Sift Summit, in 2022 Summit takes place in California;
- Hybrid work approach: you can choose where you work better remotely or in the office.

**What would make you a good fit:**
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer of infrastructure/platform services or SRE;
- Strong programming skills with such languages as Java or Scala, or Python;
- Extensive experience building & managing cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP;
- Experience solving problems with production systems, and building solutions and automation to prevent them from reoccurring;
- Proven experience with automation and knowledge of configuration management tools;
- Experience building infrastructure as code and automating infrastructure provisioning steps, such as CloudFormation/Terraform;
- Strong experience with monitoring and alerting systems, both open source and commercial;
- Familiarity with Docker and container clustering technologies like Kubernetes, GKE, or AWS ECS.

**What you’ll do:**
- Build immutable infrastructure and multi-AZ/multi-region fault-tolerant systems that are anti-fragile;
- Multi-region deployment: deploying Bigtable cluster which spans multiple regions (how can we make a specific customer stick to a specific region, sticky sessions at region level);
- Local development and testing as fast and painless as possible;
- Create Dynamic environments (complete env to a specific service talking to other env.;
- Bot - deployment to monitoring via slack.

**Benefits and perks:**
- A compensation package that consists of financial compensation, a biannual 5% bonus, and stock options;
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage;
- 50$ for sports and wellness;
- Education reimbursement: books, education courses, conferences;
- Flexible time off: we follow an unlimited vacation approach;
- Tuned work schedule to Kyiv timezone despite US offices location: biweekly demo sessions are optional for our team and we watch them from recording;
- Mental Health Days: additional day-offs;
- English courses and social activities inside the company that allow improving your public speaking and language.

**Our interview:**
We follow the same process for all teams, technical interview consists of 2 parts:
- 60 min technical pre-screen interview;
- Virtual on-site interview: 4 sessions, 45 mins each, that cover coding, system design, experience, and soft skills
During our sessions, you will have the opportunity to learn about company culture, meet engineers from your team and discuss distributed system problems. You will have time for all interesting questions and get transparency regarding your future responsibilities and the project.

**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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