Staff Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

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Scribe
Full time
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USA
09/12/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Build and evolve monitoring and observability systems for hundreds of thousands of desktop and browser-extension installations.
Define measures of recorder reliability, data-capture health, and Workflow Mapping system availability.
Own backend ingestion services connecting captured data to processing and AI pipelines.
Improve background-job reliability and task orchestration for dependable data movement.
Design, deploy, and operate production services in AWS while using observability to troubleshoot and improve them.
Set technical direction and drive feature, reliability, and observability roadmaps across teams.
Lead cross-team technical work, clarify ownership, unblock engineers, and establish scalable architecture and maintainable code.

Requirements

Deep backend engineering experience and ownership of complex production systems at Staff-level scope.
Strong Python skills and working familiarity with TypeScript and Go.
Experience designing and operating distributed systems and large-scale data ingestion pipelines.
Experience building monitoring and observability systems for detecting, diagnosing, and resolving production failures.
Experience with message queues, background jobs, and task orchestration tools such as Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.
Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining production services in AWS.
Ability to turn ambiguous problems into technical roadmaps, align engineers across teams, and carry work from design through production operation.
Preferred experience monitoring large fleets of desktop applications, browser extensions, or other distributed clients.
Django experience is preferred.
Startup or other fast-paced, high-growth environment experience is preferred.

Benefits

Remote work arrangement.
Equity for all full-time employees.
Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
Flexible paid time off and company holidays.
401(k).
Paid parental leave.
Daily catered lunch at the San Francisco office.
Commuter benefits.
Home office stipend.

Salary: $180k - $280k/yr

Scribe

Scribe builds a process documentation and knowledge-capture platform that turns on-screen workflows into step-by-step guides with screenshots, editable docs, and embeds. It sells SaaS plans to teams and enterprises, with integrations and an AI layer to organize and reuse captured processes across...

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