Backend Engineer

Ketch; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Unlimited PTO

Company holidays

Parental leave

Remote-friendly

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Ketch is hiring a backend engineer in San Francisco for the Data Permissioning Platform. You will build and operate scalable services in Golang, collaborating with teams to deliver secure, compliant data solutions across the stack.

The role is full-time, hybrid in San Francisco, with a strong emphasis on automation, DevEx improvements, and cloud-native architectures. Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure and Kubernetes is valued.

Qualifications

• Backend engineer with experience building large-scale systems.
• Proficient in Golang or similar languages.
• Experience deploying cloud-native services.

Responsibilities

• Build and run large-scale backend services in cloud-native environments.
• Own components and strive for reliability, performance and scalability.
• Develop server-side features in Golang and integrate with data stores.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship end-to-end solutions.
• Ensure secure, compliant data handling across microservices and pipelines.
• Continuously improve tooling, automation and deployment processes.

Skills

Golang

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

DevEx tooling

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

GitHub

Job description

Ketch is redefining responsible data use for the AI era. Thousands of brands rely on our software to responsibly collect, control, and activate compliant, clean data across their enterprise ecosystem. The Ketch Data Permissioning Platform simplifies privacy and consent operations, increases revenue from advertising, data, and AI initiatives, and builds trust with customers and partners. Unlike legacy tools that stop at cookie banners, Ketch governs how data is actually used across a company’s entire stack, with no-code setup that gets customers live in weeks, not quarters.

As privacy regulations expand across the globe and AI transforms how companies use data, the demand for what Ketch has built has never been greater. Data privacy sits at the intersection of law, technology, and consumer trust, making it one of the most exciting and fastest-moving fields in software today.

Why Join Us?

At Ketch, we’re serious about our values of passion, growth, grit, collaboration, and integrity. We’re a 65-person, Series B company backed by top-tier investors, and we’re looking for people who want to do the best work of their careers while shaping how the world handles data responsibly. We’re a rapidly growing, fast-paced, mission-based organization filled with a passionate, close-knit team all operating at the top of their game.

Benefits And Perks

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for US-based full-time employees
• Unlimited PTO, with employees encouraged to take at least 15 days a year
• 10 paid company holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Remote-friendly with flexible scheduling built around core collaboration hours
• Commuter benefits for office-based employees

Who We Are

Ketch is a Series B data privacy B2B SaaS redefining responsible data use for the AI era. The Ketch Data Permissioning Platform is the new layer of business technology that helps brands collect, control, and activate permissioned, privacy-safe data across every device, system, and third‑party app.

Brands around the world use Ketch to simplify privacy and consent operations, increase revenue from advertising, data, and AI initiatives, and build trust with customers and partners.

Our patented technology empowers businesses and software engineers with a deploy‑once, comply‑and‑secure‑everywhere framework for exerting perfect control over every scrap of responsibly gathered data. This intelligent and pervasive data fabric underpins our vision to move from rules to tools to ensure privacy is respected as an essential human right.

What you will be doing at Ketch

We are looking for a highly skilled backend engineer who is comfortable with building and running large scale systems in cloud native ways. You will be solving challenging problems while learning a great deal and having fun at the same time.

What We Are Looking For

Our ideal candidate is a technical expert that gets things done by using their smarts and whatever tools make sense for the job at hand. Someone who loves to stand on the shoulders of giants to solve new problems and thrives in a rapidly innovating space working with other smart people.

This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of San Francisco, California

Below Is a Detailed Breakdown Of Responsibilities

• Build solutions to solve our enterprise customers’ data privacy and security problems at scale
• Take ownership of what you build. Take pride in building it better and scaling it
• Develop server‑side components primarily in Golang and interact with various data stores and processing pipelines
• Co‑own a performing, fault‑tolerant, highly secure microservice architecture and continuously evolve it
• Master data security and data protection techniques and put them into practice
• Work closely with stakeholders/customers to understand use cases and solutions end‑to‑end
• Collectively be responsible for the well‑being of our SaaS production system - quality, performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency
• Invent and reinvent how we build, deploy and operate
• Keep abreast of technologies and tools. Embrace and contribute to open source communities

Your Tech Friends Would Say You

• Really know about scalable distributed systems
• Have built production systems and services in Golang (ideal) or Java/Python/Scala
• Have a deep understanding of domain driven data modelingHave built production services in cloud‑native environment (AWS, GCP, Azure) and know where itʼs awesome and where it hurts
• Dead serious about tooling, best practices, automation - anything to improve DevEx
• Are a great communicator and collaborator
• Have dealt with complexities for mobile, web and mixed environments
• Really grok your CI/CD (Github Actions, etc), Database/Storage (Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, ScyllaDB, Postgres, ElasticSearch) and VCS (git/GitHub) tools
• Good at instrumenting, troubleshooting, performance tuning multi‑tenant large scale Kubernetes deployments
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering

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