About the position
Sift is a powerful observability stack that gives engineers complete visibility and control over their data. The company was conceived as a foundational tool, inspired by our work at SpaceX for Dragon, Falcon, Starlink, and Starship, that can support groundbreaking innovation and encourage machine development. Utilizing collaborative features and automated processes, Sift improves the focus of hardware engineers and streamlines workflows for greater accuracy while scaling. We're a fast-growing startup with engineers and operators from SpaceX, Google, and Palantir, and backed by the best investors in the sector. We're looking for high-performing engineers to lay the foundation of Sift. As a founding engineer, you'll shape the tech stack, product, and culture. You should be passionate about working closely with companies solving complex engineering challenges, including satellite constellations, renewable energy, and autonomous transportation.
Responsibilities
- Design and build a horizontally scalable platform for ingesting millions of data points from hardware sensors per second and a robust and durable database solution for storing, reading, and analyzing those 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
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or STEM discipline
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering or data engineering
- 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
- Self-starter, able to navigate ambiguity and changing priorities
- Team player with excellent communication skills and a collaborative work ethic
Nice-to-haves
- Experience designing and building large-scale, distributed systems or web applications using Go, Python, or an equivalent language
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles; version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring
