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Staff Engineer

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, California

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Software Engineering

Date Posted

June 24, 2026

Full Job Description

📋 Description

  • As a Staff Engineer at Sift Science, you will play a critical role in bridging advanced machine learning capabilities with real-world customer needs, ensuring that complex fraud detection technology is accessible, usable, and impactful for enterprise clients.
  • Day to day, you will architect and implement scalable engineering solutions, develop and maintain internal and external APIs, collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape requirements, and improve engineering practices while supporting high-availability services and customer-facing analytics.
  • You will join a team that owns the customer-facing software experience, including APIs, web applications, automation tools, and analytics platforms, all designed to make sophisticated ML-driven fraud insights actionable without requiring deep technical expertise from users.
  • In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape technical architecture, influence product direction, mentor through technical leadership, and grow your expertise in scalable systems, data pipelines, and enterprise-grade service delivery within a high-growth AI-driven security platform.

🏖️ Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on AI-powered fraud platform securing digital trust for global businesses
  • Work with modern technologies including Dropwizard, Snowflake, Spanner, Postgres, Redis, MongoDb, GCP, Elasticsearch, Kafka, BigTable
  • Intentional focus on building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
  • Chance to impact over 700 global customers and contribute to a platform scoring 1 trillion events per year
  • Transparent recruitment privacy practices and commitment to employee trust and authenticity

Skills & Technologies

Java
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
Elasticsearch
Senior
Onsite

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About Sift Science, Inc.

Sift is a digital trust and safety platform that helps businesses prevent online fraud and abuse. It uses machine learning to analyze user behavior, device information, and other signals in real-time, allowing companies to make smarter decisions about who to trust. Sift's platform provides tools for fraud detection, account takeover prevention, content moderation, and payment protection. By unifying data across various touchpoints, Sift enables businesses to build secure and seamless customer experiences while reducing operational costs associated with manual review and chargebacks. Their solutions cater to a wide range of industries, including e-commerce, finance, travel, and gaming.

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