Staff Engineer

Sift

Staff Engineer developing scalable engineering solutions to address complex customer needs at Sift. Collaborating with multiple teams to architect and implement systems for fraud-fighting at scale.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Java

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect and implement engineering solutions to address complex customer needs at scale
Develop, build, and maintain both internal and external facing API platforms and endpoints to enable customer integration, automation, and powering our customer-facing Console web application
Partner with product management to help scope and shape project requirements
Collaborate with other engineers within the team as well as across other engineering teams
Help evolve and improve our engineering practices

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Experience with RESTful services, API design, and web technologies
Experience working in Java
Strong communication & collaboration skills - a team-first, product-first mindset
Experience with data pipelines, data modeling, and data warehousing

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

API designRESTful servicesJavadata pipelinesdata modelingdata warehousingengineering solutionshighly-available servicesweb technologies

Soft Skills

communication skillscollaboration skillsteam-first mindsetproduct-first mindset

Certifications

Degree in Computer Science