Senior Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

About the company

Scribe is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers. More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to own their specialized intelligence: the unique way their teams work, decide, and get things done. Our Specialized Intelligence platform automatically captures how work happens and turns it into a living asset that helps people and AI agents do their best work. We're growing fast—since our founding in 2019, we've grown to 7 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 transform how people do work.

About the role

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.

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

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building backend applications with Python, TypeScript, or Go
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments
• Confidence 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 understanding the challenges that come with scale, reliability, and performance
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices
• Ability 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 have

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

Location

Hybrid. Based in San Francisco. We work from the office 3 days per week.

Pay

Compensation range: $145K - $230K. Salary varies by location. All full-time employees receive equity in Scribe. Final offers depend on experience and scope.

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