Senior Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

Scribe is building the infrastructure that powers how modern teams capture, process, and scale knowledge. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build backend systems for core product experiences and AI capabilities, focusing on data ingestion and processing pipelines in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the backend systems that power core product experiences and next-generation AI capabilities
• Help architect and evolve large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines
• Build services that support AI inference with in-house models
• Improve the performance of business-critical systems across the platform
• Work across Python, Typescript, and Go, and partner closely with teammates to deploy and operate reliable systems in AWS

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience building backend applications with Python, Typescript, or Go
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments
• Confident working with message queues, background jobs, and task orchestration tools such as Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka
• Built large-scale data ingestion and processing systems and understand the challenges that come with scale, reliability, and performance
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices
• Know how to optimize endpoint performance, improve database query efficiency, and troubleshoot bottlenecks in critical systems
• Enjoy building pragmatic, high-quality application code and care about maintainability as much as velocity
• Thrive in fast-moving environments and bring a strong sense of ownership to your work
• Experience with Django
• Worked at a startup or other fast-paced, high-growth environment