Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Agentic AI)

What this role involves

Sift is building an AI agent platform for hardware engineering teams to analyze telemetry from rockets, satellites, and autonomous vehicles. This senior backend engineer role focuses on designing and shipping agentic systems that reason over large-scale time-series data, with ownership over product features and direct customer interaction.

Skills this posting asks for

• go
• python
• rust
• rest
• grpc
• kubernetes
• mcp
• llm
• agentic systems
• time-series data
• kafka
• flink
• timescaledb
• distributed systems
• streaming
• observability

Requirements

• 8 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

ABOUT SIFT Sift is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams. We turn high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical machines: rockets, satellites, autonomous vehicles, energy systems, and defense platforms. Founded by former SpaceX engineers, we are…