Remote Staff Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

Scribe; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

401(k)

Parental leave

Lunch in SF office

Commuter benefits

Home office stipend

Job summary

Scribe, a fast-growing AI-enabled company, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion, who will own the backend platform and observability for Workflow Mapping. You’ll work on Python primarily, with TypeScript and Go as needed, building systems that monitor data capture, ingestion health, and data flow into processing and AI pipelines.

This hands-on technical leadership role emphasizes scalable architecture, reliability, and cross-team collaboration, with AWS deployments, strong signal

Qualifications

• Deep experience building backend applications at staff level.
• Strong Python skills; comfortable with TypeScript and Go.
• Designed and operated distributed systems and large-scale data ingestion pipelines.
• Built monitoring and observability systems for production health.
• Experience with queues and background jobs: Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka.
• Experience deploying production services in AWS.
• Ability to turn problems into technical roadmaps and align teams.
• Hands-on engineering with leadership and ownership of system health.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the monitoring and observability platform for hundreds of thousands of desktop and browser extension installations worldwide.
• Define and improve the signals that measure recorder reliability, data capture health, and the availability of our Agentic Workflow Mapping system.
• Own and evolve the backend ingestion services that connect data capture to processing and AI pipelines, with a focus on scale, reliability, and performance.
• Improve background-job reliability and task orchestration so captured data moves dependably through the platform.
• Design, deploy, and operate production services in AWS, using observability to identify failures, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and guide improvements.
• Set the technical direction and drive the feature, reliability, and observability roadmap for the Workflow Mapping client platform in partnership with Recorder Engineering and adjacent teams.
• Lead cross-team technical work, clarify ownership, unblock engineers, and set a high bar for scalable architecture and maintainable code.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

Distributed systems

Data ingestion

Observability

Message queues

AWS

Technical leadership

Roadmapping

Tools

Celery

SQS

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

Scribe, a fast-growing AI-enabled company, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion, who will own the backend platform and observability for Workflow Mapping. You’ll work on Python primarily, with TypeScript and Go as needed, building systems that monitor data capture, ingestion health, and data flow into processing and AI pipelines.

This hands-on technical leadership role emphasizes scalable architecture, reliability, and cross-team collaboration, with AWS deployments, strong signal