Backend Engineer

Ketch • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ketch is seeking a highly skilled backend engineer to build and operate large-scale systems using cloud-native approaches. The role focuses on solving enterprise customers’ data privacy and security challenges and developing server-side components, primarily in Golang, that interact 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.

This is a full-time, hybrid position based in San Francisco, California. The role offers a US base salary range of $130,000–$140,000, plus equity and benefits.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience building production systems and services in Golang, or in Java, Python, or Scala.
• Deep understanding of domain-driven data modeling.
• Experience building production services in a cloud-native environment such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Knowledge of scalable distributed systems.
• Strong interest in tooling, best practices, and automation to improve developer experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with complexities of mobile, web, and mixed environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions; databases and storage such as Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, ScyllaDB, Postgres, or Elasticsearch; and version control tools such as Git and 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 problems at scale.
• Take ownership of work and build, improve, and scale the systems developed.
• Develop server-side components, primarily in Golang, and interact 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 with stakeholders and customers to understand use cases and solutions end-to-end.
• Help ensure 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 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