Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Agentic AI)

What this role involves

Sift is building AI agents for hardware engineering teams to analyze telemetry from rockets, satellites, and autonomous vehicles. This senior backend engineer role involves designing and shipping agentic systems, building tool interfaces and distributed execution on Kubernetes, and owning product features from customer conversations to deployment.

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…