Principal Cloud Platform Engineer - Core Infra - Remote

Overview

The Core Platform team at Sift builds and evolves the foundational systems that power our online services. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll play a critical leadership role in shaping the technical strategy, architecture, and direction of our infrastructure and services platform. You’ll drive initiatives that enhance the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems—ensuring they are resilient, secure, and aligned with the growing needs of our customers and business.

In Short

• Provide technical leadership and vision for Sift’s online infrastructure—ensuring it is highly available, performant, and scalable.
• Drive architecture and design of immutable, fault-tolerant, multi-region infrastructure and services.
• Lead the implementation of sophisticated multi-region deployments to meet global customer needs.
• Solve high-scale, high-throughput problems requiring deep understanding of messaging systems and distributed data stores.
• Guide improvements to developer workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and local development environments.
• Architect and build robust internal libraries and platforms for interacting with core systems.
• Develop proactive monitoring and self-healing systems to improve resilience of critical services.
• Act as a strategic advisor to engineering teams on data architecture and service optimization.
• Participate in and help evolve our on-call strategy for effective incident response.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers across teams, driving engineering excellence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure roles.
• Deep expertise in designing, scaling, and operating cloud-native systems on AWS or GCP.
• Proven ability to architect infrastructure as code with tools like Terraform.
• Advanced programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, or Scala.
• Extensive experience with messaging systems and distributed databases.
• Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Track record of reducing operational complexity through automation.
• Experience influencing architectural decisions across engineering teams.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• 401k plan
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Wellness reimbursement
• Education reimbursement
• Flexible time off