Software Engineer, Backend (Agentic AI)

What this role involves

Sift is building a data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams. This role involves designing and building AI agents that help engineers analyze telemetry data from mission-critical machines. The position requires 3+ years of software engineering experience and ownership of product areas from customer interaction to shipping.

Skills this posting asks for

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

Requirements

• 3 years of experience
• Level: mid

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…