Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

Scribe•San Francisco, CA

10d•$140,000 - $215,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Backend Engineer on Data Ingestion, you’ll work on the systems that bring captured activity into Scribe: receiving, batching, storing and handing it on to the AI pipeline, at the scale of hundreds of thousands of users and growing. The work is backend and infrastructure, focused on throughput, reliability and cost. You’ll build projects from design to launch on established and new products, collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers, contribute to technical discussions, and uphold strong engineering practices. You’ll build and operate high-throughput backend services and their queues and storage, improve performance and reliability across critical workflows, and participate in the on-call rotation for the systems you build.

Requirements

At least 2 years of experience building backend applications.
Product-minded, with care for the user problem as well as the code.
Comfortable with unclear problems and fast change.
Strong Python or Go experience, or experience in another backend language and willingness to work across Python and Go.
Familiarity with queues, object storage, and relational or time-series databases.
Experience debugging a production problem using metrics and logs.
User-centric, empathetic, and passionate about your work.

Nice To Haves

AI/LLM product experience.
Startup experience.

Responsibilities

Build projects from design to launch, on established products and new ones.
Collaborate with PMs, designers and other engineers to execute the build and how.
Contribute to technical discussions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architecture.
Uphold strong engineering practices, including code review, test coverage and observability.
Build and operate high-throughput backend services and the queues and storage behind them.
Improve the performance and reliability of services, database queries, endpoints and caching across critical workflows.
Take part in the on-call rotation for the systems you build.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including two $0/month medical plan options for employees.
Equity in Scribe.
401(k) plan through Vestwell.
$500/year Flex Benefit for home office equipment, productivity tools, learning and development, or fitness/wellness.
$100/month commuter benefits for San Francisco-based employees.
Flexible paid time off and company holidays.
Paid parental leave.
Free Talkspace membership.
One Medical access, location-dependent.
Kindbody discounts for family planning.