Rapid Growth

Sift is growing rapidly which gives our employees exciting opportunities to take on new challenges and have a significant impact on the company’s future.

Big Data Scale

We sift through more than 50 billion daily bid requests, maintain billions of profiles of smartphone users around the world, and operate at large revenue scale.

Start-up Culture

We are based in the start-up incubator American Underground @Main in downtown Durham. You will work with exciting people and among interesting entrepreneurs from other start-ups.

Laid-back Environment

Employees enjoy coming to work in jeans, working in an open environment, and lounging on couches with their laptop.

Stock Options

All employees are expected to make an impact, so everyone is granted stock options when they join the company.

Employee Benefits

In addition to stock options, every employee receives a very competitive benefits package including 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your family, Vanguard 401k, HSA, FSA for childcare expenses, long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and tuition reimbursement for continuing education.

Free Food & Drinks

Our office is stocked with plenty of snacks and drinks to help get you through each day.

Exciting Industry

The mobile app & adtech business is booming and changing every day, which means that we are always adapting to stay ahead of the curve.

Beer Fridays

Every Friday afternoon, the company breaks away from work to come together and unwind after a busy week. We love playing Settlers of Catan and ping pong.

Work/Life Balance

We work hard but respect our employee’s life outside of the office and general well-being. We offer an unlimited vacation policy!

Experienced Team

Many of our employees have over a decade’s worth of experience in the mobile app & adtech space. We are a company of ‘A’ players and successful entrepreneurs and only look for the best people to join our team.

Everyone Has a Voice

Every employee has the opportunity to make their mark: to implement new processes, design new programs, and be creative within their unique role.

Bias Towards Action

You will get things done, and you will also gain experience with the entire technology stack.

Transparency

Every employee knows virtually everything about the company. We believe giving employees the superset of all information helps them make the best decisions.

Sift is looking for an experienced and creative Software Engineer with a data science background or a strong desire to implement data science and machine learning technologies to join our team in Durham, NC offering an opportunity to work on scalable distributed applications built using cutting edge technologies and services. This position requires a proven ability to understand and implement complex business requirements for new systems and enhancements to existing systems in very fast-paced environment. Additionally, the candidate must exhibit the ability to analyze and debug complex software systems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with others to conceptualize, build, test and ship software solutions that meet business and market needs

• Maintain existing software systems including cloud based infrastructure

• Push big data technologies to the limits to help better our products and services

• Implement scalable and cost effective software systems that meet business requirements

• Develop high quality software using industry standard best practices including unit testing, code reviews and continuous integration

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

• Software development experience preferably with a JVM based language (Java, Scala, Clojure)

• Experience with distributed data handling and storage technologies like Amazon Kinesis, Redshift, DynamoDB, and Redis

• Exposure to infrastructure management technologies like Puppet or Chef utilized in a cloud-based environment like AWS

• Experience working with Git, Subversion or other SCM tools

• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON

• Strong understanding of query languages and tradeoffs between relational and non-relational systems

• Working knowledge of key data structures and algorithms (indexing, hash tables, joins, aggregation)

• Solid understanding of software development best practices and methodologies

• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

• Excellent communication and collaborative problem-solving skills

• Can lead by example & motivate fellow developers to meet challenging goals

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Minor in statistics or related field

• Python Data Science experience

• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as Amazon Machine Learning

• Experience with Big data Tools like Map Reduce, Hadoop, Spark

• Knowledge and applicable experience with agile methodologies such as SCRUM

• Experience with Scala

• Experience with Microservice architectures

• Experience with functional programming

• Good time management skills and structured work methodology

• Experience with NoSQL datastores, especially DynamoDB and Redis

• RDBMS and JDBC experience, especially MySQL or Amazon Aurora

• Experience with build tools, especially sbt