Sr Backend Software Engineer, Recording

Scribe•San Francisco, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Scribe is building the infrastructure that powers how modern teams capture, process, and scale knowledge. As a Sr. Software Engineer, Backend, you will play a critical role in shaping the systems behind our data ingestion, workflow processing, and AI inference capabilities. Your work will directly influence the reliability, performance, and scalability of the platform as we continue to grow quickly and serve millions of users around the world. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working close to application code while also thinking deeply about distributed systems, scalability, and performance. Scribe is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers. More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to document and scale how work gets done. Our Workflow AI platform automatically captures and optimizes workflows so teams work smarter, faster, and more consistently. We’re growing fast — since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown to over 5 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we've been named a LinkedIn Top Startup, are valued at over $1 billion, and are backed by leading investors. Join us in our mission to uplevel how people do work.

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
Built 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

Design and build the backend systems that power core product experiences and next-generation AI capabilities
Architect and evolve large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines
Build services that support AI inference with our in-house models
Improve the performance of business-critical systems across the platform
Work across Python, Typescript, and Go
Partner closely with teammates to deploy and operate reliable systems in AWS
Help define how Scribe scales backend infrastructure for the next stage of growth