Scribe

Senior Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

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15 days ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior

Base Salary

$145k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and evolve large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines.
  • Build backend services that power AI inference with in-house models.
  • Design, deploy, and operate production microservices.
  • Improve application, endpoint, database, and overall system performance.
  • Develop reliable and maintainable code across Python, TypeScript, and Go.
  • Partner with teammates to deploy and operate systems in AWS.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building backend applications with Python, TypeScript, or Go.
  • Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
  • Experience 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.
  • Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices.
  • Ability to optimize endpoint performance, improve database query efficiency, and troubleshoot bottlenecks.
  • Strong focus on pragmatic, maintainable application code and ownership in fast-moving environments.
  • Django experience is preferred.
  • Startup or other fast-paced, high-growth company experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible paid time off and company holidays.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Daily catered lunch at the San Francisco office.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Home office stipend.
  • Hybrid work arrangement based in San Francisco, with three days per week in the office.
  • Full-time employees receive equity in Scribe.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Scribe

201-500 employees

Every organization has its own way of doing things: how your best people really work, the judgment calls, the exceptions, the workarounds. It's your company’s most valuable dataset, and almost none of it is written down. It lives in peoples’ heads. You can’t use it, and you certainly don’t own it. And when they leave, it leaves. Scribe is trusted by 94% of the Fortune 500 to turn what your teams actually do — which we call specialized intelligence — into a living asset you own. Scribe structures your company’s IP and puts it back to work for your teams and AI agents.

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