Senior Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

Scribe • San Francisco, CA

2d • $145,000 - $230,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you'll design and build the backend systems behind Scribe's data ingestion, workflow processing, and AI inference capabilities, working close to application code while thinking deeply about distributed systems, scalability, and performance. You'll help architect large-scale data pipelines, build services that power AI inference with our in-house models, and improve business-critical systems across the platform, working across Python, TypeScript, and Go in partnership with teammates deploying to AWS.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building backend applications with Python, Typescript, or Go.
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments.
• Confident working with message queues, background jobs, and task orchestration tools such as Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.
• Experience building large-scale data ingestion and processing systems and understand the challenges that come with scale, reliability, and performance.
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices.
• Know how to optimize endpoint performance, improve database query efficiency, and troubleshoot bottlenecks in critical systems.
• Enjoy building pragmatic, high-quality application code and care about maintainability as much as velocity.
• Thrive in fast-moving environments and bring a strong sense of ownership to your work.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Django.
• Worked at a startup or other fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines
• Build services that power AI inference with our in-house models
• Improve the performance of business-critical systems across the platform
• Design, deploy, and operate microservices in production
• Work across Python, TypeScript, and Go to ship reliable, maintainable code
• Partner with teammates to deploy and operate systems in AWS

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Flexible paid time off and company holidays
• 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• Daily catered lunch (SF office)
• Commuter benefits
• Home office stipend
• Equity in Scribe

What This Job Offers

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