Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

United States·San Franciscofull-timemid

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Key Responsibilities

code review, test coverage and observability. Build and operate high-throughput backend services and the queues and storage behind them. Improve the performance and reliability of services, data

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Scribe is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers. More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to own their specialized intelligence: the unique way their teams work, decide, and get things done. Our Specialized Intelligence platform automatically captures how work happens and turns it into a living asset that helps people and AI agents do their best work.

We're growing fast. Since our founding in 2019, we've grown to 90,000+ customers and 7 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we've been named a LinkedIn Top Startup, are valued at over $1 billion, and are backed by leading investors. Join us in our mission to transform how people do work.

About the Role

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As a Backend Engineer on Data Ingestion, you’ll work on the systems that bring captured activity into Scribe: receiving, batching, storing and handing it on to the AI pipeline, at the scale of hundreds of thousands of users and growing. The work is backend and infrastructure: throughput, reliability and cost.

Responsibilities

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Build projects from design to launch, on established products and new ones.
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Collaborate with PMs, designers and other engineers to execute the build and how.
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Contribute to technical discussions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architecture.
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Uphold strong engineering practices: code review, test coverage and observability.
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Build and operate high-throughput backend services and the queues and storage behind them.
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Improve the performance and reliability of services, database queries, endpoints and caching across critical workflows.
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Take part in the on-call rotation for the systems you build

2+ years building experience building backend applications
Product-minded. You care about the user problem as much as the code
Comfortable with unclear problems and fast change
Strong Python or Go experience, or experience in another backend language and willingness to work across Python and Go
Familiar with queues, object storage, and relational or time-series databases
Has debugged a production problem from metrics and logs
User-centric, empathetic, and passionate about your work