Backend Engineer

Ketch • San Francisco, CA

1d • $130,000 - $140,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ketch is hiring a backend engineer to build and operate large-scale, cloud-native systems for its data privacy and permissioning platform. The role focuses on developing server-side components, primarily in Golang, and working with data stores and processing pipelines. The engineer will help evolve a secure, fault-tolerant microservice architecture and contribute to the quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency of Ketch’s SaaS production system. The position is full-time and hybrid, based in San Francisco, California.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience building production systems and services in Golang, or Java, Python, or Scala.
• Knowledge of scalable distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of domain-driven data modeling.
• Experience building production services in a cloud-native environment such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with tooling, best practices, and automation to improve developer experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience dealing with complexities across mobile, web, and mixed environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, databases and storage such as Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, ScyllaDB, Postgres, and Elasticsearch, and version control tools such as Git/GitHub.
• Ability to instrument, troubleshoot, and performance-tune large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes deployments.
• English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Build solutions that address enterprise customers’ data privacy and security needs at scale.
• Take ownership of developed systems and improve and scale them.
• Develop server-side components primarily in Golang and work with data stores and processing pipelines.
• Co-own and continuously evolve a performant, fault-tolerant, highly secure microservice architecture.
• Apply data security and data protection techniques.
• Work closely with stakeholders and customers to understand use cases and solutions end to end.
• Contribute to the quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency of the SaaS production system.
• Invent and improve how systems are built, deployed, and operated.
• Keep up with relevant technologies and tools and contribute to open-source communities.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for US-based full-time employees
• Unlimited PTO
• 10 paid company holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Remote-friendly work with flexible scheduling built around core collaboration hours
• Commuter benefits for office-based employees
• Equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed