Product Engineer (data privacy SaaS, backend focus)

Ketch • San Francisco, CA

6d • $160,000 - $180,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ketch is hiring a backend-focused Product Engineer to build and operate large-scale, cloud-native systems for its data privacy SaaS platform. The role focuses on solving enterprise customers’ data privacy and security challenges, developing server-side components primarily in Golang, and working with data stores and processing pipelines. The engineer will help evolve a highly secure, fault-tolerant microservice architecture and share responsibility for 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

• At least 3 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building production systems and services in Golang, or in Java, Python, or Scala.
• Strong 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.
• Strong interest in tooling, best practices, and automation to improve developer experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with complexities across mobile, web, and mixed environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, database and storage technologies such as Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, ScyllaDB, Postgres, and Elasticsearch, and version control tools such as Git and GitHub.
• Ability to instrument, troubleshoot, and tune performance of large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes deployments.
• English proficiency.

Nice To Haves

• Golang production experience is identified as ideal; experience with Java, Python, or Scala is also accepted.

Responsibilities

• Build solutions that address enterprise customers’ data privacy and security problems at scale.
• Take ownership of developed systems and improve their quality and scalability.
• 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 with stakeholders and customers to understand use cases and solutions end-to-end.
• Share responsibility for the quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency of the SaaS production system.
• 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, with employees encouraged to take at least 15 days per year.
• 10 paid company holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Remote-friendly work with flexible scheduling around core collaboration hours.
• Commuter benefits for office-based employees.
• Equity.

What This Job Offers

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