Senior Backend Engineer - Data Ingestion & Temporal Systems

Salt; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own a critical data ingestion platform, including OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing. The role emphasizes distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability, and ownership of the Temporal architecture.

You will work with Docker, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure to build durable, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable systems. The team supports a Hybrid role with 2 days onsite in Redwood City, CA.

Qualifications

• Eligible to work in the United States.
• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years of Python.
• Strong production experience with Temporal.
• Strong AWS experience.
• Experience operating and debugging production systems.

Responsibilities

• Own a critical data ingestion platform, including OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing.
• Focus on distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability, and scalability.
• Take significant ownership over Temporal architecture.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure.
• Build durable, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Temporal

AWS

Production systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

S3

DynamoDB

SQS

Redis

Job description

Salt is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own a critical data ingestion platform, including OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing. The role emphasizes distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability, and ownership of the Temporal architecture.

You will work with Docker, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure to build durable, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable systems. The team supports a Hybrid role with 2 days onsite in Redwood City, CA.