[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Scribe is building the infrastructure that powers how modern teams capture, process, and scale knowledge. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build the backend systems that support core product experiences and AI capabilities, focusing on large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines while ensuring system reliability and performance.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the backend systems that power core product experiences and next-generation AI capabilities
- Help architect and evolve large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines
- Build services that support AI inference with in-house models
- Improve the performance of business-critical systems across the platform
- Work across Python, Typescript, and Go, and partner closely with teammates to deploy and operate reliable systems in AWS
Skills
- You bring 8+ years of experience building backend applications with Python, Typescript, or Go
- You have deep experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments
- You're confident working with message queues, background jobs, and task orchestration tools such as Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka
- You've built large-scale data ingestion and processing systems and understand the challenges that come with scale, reliability, and performance
- You have experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices
- You know how to optimize endpoint performance, improve database query efficiency, and troubleshoot bottlenecks in critical systems
- You enjoy building pragmatic, high-quality application code and care about maintainability as much as velocity
- You thrive in fast-moving environments and bring a strong sense of ownership to your work
- You have experience with Django
- You've worked at a startup or other fast-paced, high-growth environment
Benefits
- Ownership mindset (equity for all employees)
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible paid time off and company holidays
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
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