Senior Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion & AI Pipelines

Scribe; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible paid time off and companyholi

401(k)

Paid parental leave

Daily catered lunch (SF office)

Commuter benefits

Home office stipend

Job summary

Scribe is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend in San Francisco to design and build the backend systems behind data ingestion, workflow processing, and AI inference. You will work close to application code across Python, TypeScript, and Go in a fast-moving environment.

You will architect large-scale pipelines, deploy microservices on AWS, and drive performance improvements across the platform while delivering reliable, maintainable code with ownership and accountability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend experience in Python, TypeScript, or Go.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems in production.
• Experience with message queues (Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Built large-scale data ingestion/processing and ensured reliability and performance.
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices.
• Optimized endpoint performance and database queries to remove bottlenecks.
• Strong ownership and pragmatic, high-quality code with maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Build services that power AI inference with our in-house models.
• Improve the performance of business-critical systems across the platform.
• Design, deploy, and operate microservices in production.
• Work across Python, TypeScript, and Go to ship reliable, maintainable code.
• Partner with teammates to deploy and operate systems in AWS.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Python

TypeScript

Go

Message queues

Microservices

Performance optimization

Tools

AWS

Celery

SQS

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Django

Job description

Scribe is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend in San Francisco to design and build the backend systems behind data ingestion, workflow processing, and AI inference. You will work close to application code across Python, TypeScript, and Go in a fast-moving environment.

You will architect large-scale pipelines, deploy microservices on AWS, and drive performance improvements across the platform while delivering reliable, maintainable code with ownership and accountability.