Senior Staff Software Engineer

At Sift, we’re accelerating the development of next-generation machines with the world’s first end-to-end telemetry stack — and we’re expanding our team.

Sift’s founders started this company in order to enable private and government entities to make big, technological strides. Our focus is centered on creating a better world for tomorrow, and we’re making an impact with our highly specialized expertise.

By joining us, you’ll help shape future-focused data infrastructure that will power spacecraft, satellite constellations, renewable energy, autonomous transportation, and more.

Sift is currently looking for team members who are passionate about solving complex engineering problems and building a fast-growing startup.

If you'd like to learn more, feel free to reach out to Brandon at Nova Talent: brandon@nova-talent.com

In This Role, You'll:

• Design and build a high-performance, scalable, end-to-end data platform for hardware engineering

• Design and build a delightful user interface for visualizing and transforming millions of data points

• Work closely with customers, including hardware engineers, to understand their problems and find efficient solutions

• Help define engineering culture, standards, and processes

• Collaborate with peers on architecture, design, and code reviews

The Skillset You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or STEM discipline

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering or data engineering

• Experience designing and building large-scale, distributed systems or web applications using Go, Python, or an equivalent language

• Self-starter, able to navigate ambiguity and changing priorities

• Team player with excellent communication skills and a collaborative work ethic

Bonus Points:

• Experience working with in-stream data processing and analytics using Apache Kafka, Flink, Beam, or similar

• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, e.g. PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, Timescale, or similar

• Experience with data exploration tools like Grafana, Jupyter Notebooks, Metabase, PowerBI, or similar

• Strong understanding of DevOps principles; version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring

• Front-end experience in React or a similar JavaScript framework

Engineering At Sift:

• You’ll have the opportunity to heavily influence our stack because we’re still in the early stages of building the product. Relevant technologies include:

• Web frontend & backend: Go, React, TypeScript, WebAssembly, D3.js, WebGL, and Tailwind

• Data: Parquet, Flink, Kafka, Beam, DuckDB, Timescale, QuestDB, InfluxDB, and Druid

• Infrastructure: GitHub Actions, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform

Our Team:

We’re comprised of senior engineers and operators from SpaceX, Google, Palantir, and Astra. We believe that the best software is written by those close to the source of the problem. One of our founders, Karthik, was a Dragon flight software lead responsible for two Dragon missions to the ISS. His team used SpaceX’s end-to-end data platform before, during, and after every Dragon mission. Our other co-founder, Austin, was a lead on Starlink’s tools team, responsible for the platform that collected data from over 2000 Starlink satellites for exploration and data review.

Location:

The Sift team is based in Los Angeles. We'll work closely with hardware companies building everything from autonomous vehicles to spacecraft, many based in LA. As a customer-centric company, it's essential to be nearby for site visits and collaboration.

Benefits:

• Unlimited PTO

• Free lunch & snacks

• Top-tier health insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental