Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

Scribe· San Francisco, California, USA

Posted October 29, 2026

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Experience
2+ years
Pay
$140K – $215K per year
Education
Not specified
Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Work mode
Hybrid
Job type
Full-time

About this role

Scribe captures how work happens and turns specialized team knowledge into living assets for people and AI agents, used by 94% of the Fortune 500. The Backend Engineer on Data Ingestion builds the high-throughput systems that receive, batch, store and forward captured activity into the AI pipeline.

What you will do

  • Build projects from design to launch on established and new products
  • Collaborate with PMs, designers and engineers
  • Contribute to technical discussions balancing delivery and architecture
  • Uphold code review, test coverage and observability
  • Build and operate high-throughput backend services, queues and storage
  • Improve performance and reliability of services, queries, endpoints and caching
  • Take part in on-call rotation

What the employer expects

  • 2+ years building backend applications
  • Product-minded caring about user problems
  • Comfortable with unclear problems and fast change
  • Strong Python or Go (or another backend language with willingness to work across both)
  • Familiar with queues, object storage and relational/time-series databases
  • Has debugged production problems from metrics and logs
  • User-centric and passionate
  • Nice to have: AI/LLM product or startup experience

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision including $0 medical options
  • Equity
  • 401(k) through Vestwell
  • $500/year flex benefit
  • $100/month commuter benefits for SF employees
  • Flexible PTO and company holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Talkspace, One Medical and Kindbody support

Skills

  • Python
  • Go
  • queues
  • object storage
  • relational databases
  • time-series databases

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