Staff Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

Scribe; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Paid parental leave

Daily catered lunch (SF office)

Commuter benefits

Home office stipend

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Scribe is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion, to own the backend platform and observability systems for Workflow Mapping capture and ingestion. You'll work primarily in Python with TypeScript and Go as needed, building systems that ensure data reliability across desktop apps and browser extensions deployed worldwide.

In this hands-on technical leadership role on the Recorder Engineering team, you will shape feature and reliability roadmaps, define ingestion-health signals, and

Qualifications

• Staff-level backend experience owning production systems.
• Strong Python skills; comfortable with TypeScript and Go.
• Designed and operated distributed data ingestion pipelines.
• Built monitoring/observability to measure health.
• Experience with message queues and background jobs.
• Experience deploying services in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Own backend ingestion services and observability for scale.
• Build/expand monitoring platform for desktop apps and extensions.
• Define signals for recorder reliability and data capture health.
• Lead cross-team technical work and set scalable architecture.
• Operate production services in AWS and improve reliability.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Distributed systems

Observability/Monitoring

Message queues (Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ,

AWS

Technical leadership

Roadmapping

Tools

Celery

SQS

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Django

AWS services

TypeScript

Go

Job description

About the Role

As a Staff Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion, you'll own the backend platform and observability systems that keep Scribe's Workflow Mapping capture and ingestion systems healthy at scale. Our desktop apps and browser extensions run across hundreds of thousands of installations worldwide. You'll build the systems that help us understand whether those apps are capturing data reliably, identify problems across the fleet, and ensure the data they produce flows dependably into our processing and AI pipelines.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role on our Recorder Engineering team. You'll shape the feature, reliability, and observability roadmap for the Workflow Mapping client platform, establish meaningful measures of ingestion health, and drive improvements across team boundaries. You'll work primarily in Python, with TypeScript and Go as needed, and partner with engineers deploying and operating our services in AWS.

What You'll Do

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• You bring deep experience building backend applications and a track record of owning complex production systems at Staff-level scope.
• You have strong Python skills and are comfortable working across TypeScript and Go as needed.
• You've designed and operated distributed systems and large-scale data ingestion pipelines, and understand the tradeoffs between reliability, performance, and scale.
• You've built monitoring and observability systems that make production health measurable and help teams detect, diagnose, and resolve failures.
• You're confident working with message queues, background jobs, and task orchestration tools such as Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.
• You have experience designing, deploying, and maintaining production services in AWS.
• You can turn an ambiguous problem into a technical roadmap, align engineers across teams, and carry work from design through production operation.
• You combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, write pragmatic and maintainable code, and take ownership of the health of the systems you build.

Nice to Have

• Experience monitoring the health and reliability of a large fleet of desktop apps, browser extensions, or other distributed clients.
• Experience with Django.
• Experience working at a startup or in another fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Location

Remote.

Compensation

Salary varies by location. All full-time employees receive equity in Scribe. Final offers depend on experience and scope.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Flexible paid time off and company holidays
• 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• Daily catered lunch (SF office)
• Commuter benefits
• Home office stipend

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