# Senior Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion at Scribe

- Company: Scribe
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://scribe.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $145K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scribe/70043fce-177c-4986-9c47-4f5f9dbc50c0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scribe-senior-backend-engineer-data-ingestion/

## About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you'll design and build the backend systems behind Scribe's data ingestion, workflow processing, and AI inference capabilities, working close to application code while thinking deeply about distributed systems, scalability, and performance.

## What they're looking for

- You bring 8+ years of experience building backend applications with Python, Typescript, or Go
- You have deep experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments
- You’re confident working with message queues, background jobs, and task orchestration tools such as Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka
- You’ve built large-scale data ingestion and processing systems and understand the challenges that come with scale, reliability, and performance
- You have experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices
- You know how to optimize endpoint performance, improve database query efficiency, and troubleshoot bottlenecks in critical systems

Tags: Engineering