[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion @Scribe

Role Description

As a Staff Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion, you'll own the backend platform and observability systems that keep Scribe's Workflow Mapping capture and ingestion systems healthy at scale. This is a hands-on technical leadership role on our Recorder Engineering team.

• Build and evolve the monitoring and observability platform for hundreds of thousands of desktop and browser extension installations worldwide.
• Define and improve the signals that measure recorder reliability, data capture health, and the availability of our Agentic Workflow Mapping system.
• Own and evolve the backend ingestion services that connect data capture to processing and AI pipelines, focusing on scale, reliability, and performance.
• Improve background-job reliability and task orchestration so captured data moves dependably through the platform.
• Design, deploy, and operate production services in AWS, using observability to identify failures, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and guide improvements.
• Set the technical direction and drive the feature, reliability, and observability roadmap for the Workflow Mapping client platform in partnership with Recorder Engineering and adjacent teams.
• Lead cross-team technical work, clarify ownership, unblock engineers, and set a high bar for scalable architecture and maintainable code.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building backend applications and a track record of owning complex production systems at Staff-level scope.
• Strong Python skills and comfort working across TypeScript and Go as needed.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems and large-scale data ingestion pipelines.
• Built monitoring and observability systems that make production health measurable.
• Confidence working 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 an ambiguous problem into a technical roadmap and align engineers across teams.
• Combination of hands-on engineering with technical leadership, writing pragmatic and maintainable code.

Requirements

• Experience monitoring the health and reliability of a large fleet of desktop apps, browser extensions, or other distributed clients.
• Experience with Django.
• Experience working at a startup or in another fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Flexible paid time off and company holidays.
• 401(k).
• Paid parental leave.
• Daily catered lunch (SF office).
• Commuter benefits.
• Home office stipend.