About the team:

The Core Infrastructure 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 are very large and complicated systems that require constant vigilance to meet these goals.

What we’re looking for:

Managers who are inspiring, creative, flexible and can identify and bring focus to What’s Important Now (while still keeping an eye on the long term) will excel in our organization and make the biggest impact.  Bring your toolbox of effective and varied communication skills and techniques.

You value collaboration, transparency and have a Get Stuff Done mindset.  As a leader of teams, you understand the importance of these aspects of engineering success and lead by example.

You strengthen a culture of mentorship, give regular constructive feedback, set goals and understand how to motivate your staff.  You actively invest in the career development of your team and grow engineering groups by hiring effectively.

What you’ll do:

• Grow a team of talented, broadly-capable engineers to own our core infrastructure.
• Lead your team as they plan and deliver features and infrastructure improvements
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure we are working effectively and focusing on the right priorities
• Demonstrate and embody a strong, abiding commitment to the highest cultural standard, focusing on inclusivity, collaboration and teamwork
• Own the availability, performance and scalability of Sift’s primary online storage systems and infrastructure
• Design services and libraries for components to interact with data stores, messaging layer and services platform
• Provide design support to internal engineering teams for optimal usage of data stores, data growth planning, production workload optimization, messaging, caching and service platform

What would make you a strong fit:

• 2+ years of hands on experience managing infrastructure/SRE/platform/backend teams.
• Experience building & managing cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing top engineering talent
• Experience initiating cross-functional collaboration between multiple functions (technical and non-technical)
• Strong management and project management skills for planning and executing complex projects
• B.S. in Computer Science (or related technical discipline), or related practical experience     

Bonus points:

• Experience with either Java or Python.
• Experience building and developing distributed systems.
• Experience solving problems with production systems, and building solutions and automations to prevent them from reoccurring.
• Hands-on experience running and managing production distributed databases, messaging, caching and service platforms
• Familiarity with Docker and container clustering technologies like Kubernetes and GKE
• Familiar with configuration management and automation systems such as Terraform Salt, etc.

A little about us: