Data Ingestion Backend Engineer | Equity + Hybrid SF

scribe; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Equity ownership

401(k) Vestwell plan

Home office stipend

Commuter benefits SF-based employees

Flexible PTO & holidays

Parental leave

Wellness & family support

Job summary

Scribe is hiring a Backend Engineer on Data Ingestion to build and maintain the systems that bring captured activity into our platform. You’ll own backend services, batch processing, and storage layers at scale, collaborating with product and design teams to deliver reliable, high-throughput solutions.

You’ll work in a hybrid setting based in San Francisco, contribute to architecture discussions, and participate in on-call rotations while upholding strong engineering practices and achieving

Qualifications

• 2+ years building backend applications or services.
• Fluent in Python or Go; willing to work with both.
• Experience debugging production systems from metrics/logs.
• Product-minded: value user problems as much as code.
• Strong collaboration with PMs/designers/engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build projects from design to launch on existing or new products.
• Collaborate with PMs, designers and other engineers to execute the build and plan.
• Contribute to technical discussions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architecture.
• Uphold engineering practices: code review, test coverage, observability.
• Build and operate high-throughput backend services and storage layers.
• Improve performance and reliability of services, queries, endpoints, and caches.
• Participate in on-call rotation for the systems you build.

Skills

Backend development

Python or Go

Production debugging

User-focused

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Queues

Object storage

Relational databases

Time-series databases

Observability tools

Job description

Scribe is hiring a Backend Engineer on Data Ingestion to build and maintain the systems that bring captured activity into our platform. You’ll own backend services, batch processing, and storage layers at scale, collaborating with product and design teams to deliver reliable, high-throughput solutions.

You’ll work in a hybrid setting based in San Francisco, contribute to architecture discussions, and participate in on-call rotations while upholding strong engineering practices and achieving