Staff Backend Engineer

Postgres
UNITED STATES
November 12, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Sift
Location: Marina del Rey, CA
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $200,000 – $260,000 per year

About the Role

Sift is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams, turning high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical systems. You will design, build, and operate backend systems to process and store large volumes of real-time telemetry data, owning features end-to-end.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate backend systems processing real-time telemetry data.
  • Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Contribute to system evolution, including migrating services and improving storage or indexing layers.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, debugging live issues, and improving observability.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure roles.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (state, fault tolerance, recovery).
  • Experience with Go, Rust, or Python, and strong Linux/networking fundamentals.
  • Deep knowledge of SQL and operational database experience (indexing, migrations, tuning).
  • Experience building and scaling APIs (REST, gRPC/Protobuf).

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Experience with streaming or time-series data systems (Kafka, Flink, TimescaleDB).
  • Experience with performance tuning and profiling at query or service layers.
  • Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, Grafana).

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Plus equity and benefits.

Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual in compliance with ITAR/EAR regulations.

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