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Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

Scribe · San Francisco · Remote

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About Scribe

Automatically capture, improve, and scale how work gets done. Give your teams and AI agents the context to do their best work. Trusted by 94% of the Fortune 500. Backed by Redpoint and Amplify.

About the role

As a Backend Software 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. Build projects from design to launch, on established products and new ones. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

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 for people and AI agents.

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

As a Backend Software 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.

Build projects from design to launch, on established products and new ones.

Collaborate with PMs, designers and other engineers to execute the build and how.

Contribute to technical discussions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term...

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