Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

About the role

As a Backend Engineer on Data Ingestion, you’ll work on the systems that bring captured activity into Scribe: receiving, batching, storing and handing it on to the AI pipeline, at the scale of hundreds of thousands of users and growing. The work is backend and infrastructure: throughput, reliability and cost.

What you'll do

* Build projects from design to launch, on established products and new ones.

* Collaborate with PMs, designers and other engineers to execute the build and how.

* Contribute to technical discussions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architecture.

* Uphold strong engineering practices: code review, test coverage and observability.

* Build and operate high-throughput backend services and the queues and storage behind them.

* Improve the performance and reliability of services, database queries, endpoints and caching across critical workflows.

* Take part in the on-call rotation for the systems you build

What we're looking for

* 2+ years building experience building backend applications

* Product-minded. You care about the user problem as much as the code

* Comfortable with unclear problems and fast change

* Strong Python or Go experience, or experience in another backend language and willingness to work across Python and Go

* Familiar with queues, object storage, and relational or time-series databases

* Has debugged a production problem from metrics and logs

* User-centric, empathetic, and passionate about your work

* Nice to have: AI/LLM product experience, startup experience

Why you'll love working here

* Hard, open problems. Nobody hands you a finished spec. You'll decide what to build with your PM and designer, then own how it performs.

* The reach of a unicorn, the headcount of a startup. We went from $1M to $100M ARR in under four years, with fewer than 200 people. That means more pie than people: scope grows with your impact. Customers like T-Mobile, LinkedIn, HubSpot, New York Life and Northern Trust run on Scribe, so what you own reaches some of the biggest names in business.

* Smart is the floor. Kind is the bar. Low ego, high standards. We compete as a collective and love to see each other win, and One Team, One Dream is one of the most shouted-out values in #values.

Compensation & Location

Hybrid, based in San Francisco. We work from the office 3 days per week, with Mondays and Wednesdays being anchor days.

All full-time employees receive equity in Scribe. Final offers depend on experience and scope.

Benefits

* Healthcare Coverage – Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including two $0/month medical plan options for employees

* Equity – Ownership in what we’re building

* 401(k) plan through Vestwell

* Flex Benefit – $500/year for home office equipment, productivity tools, learning & development or fitness/wellness

* Commuter Benefits – $100/month for SF based employees

* PTO – Flexible paid time off and company holidays

* Parental Leave – Paid leave to support growing families

* Wellness & Family Support – Free Talkspace membership, One Medical access (location-dependent), and Kindbody discounts for family planning

At Scribe, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. Scribe is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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