# Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion at Scribe

Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion at Scribe in San Francisco. Hybrid, full-time, paying $140k–$215k. Posted October 27, 2026.

- Company: Scribe
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $140k–$215k
- Experience: 2+ years
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scribe/d8e906b1-3f7f-4406-a313-c7b5b713709f/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/backend-engineer-data-ingestion-scribe-14whg2

## Requirements

- 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
- User-centric, empathetic, and passionate about your work
- Nice to have: AI/LLM product experience, startup experience

## Description

**About Scribe**
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.

**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.

**What you'll do**

- 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 architecture.

- Uphold strong engineering practices: code review, test coverage and observability.

- Build and operate high-throughput backend services and the queues and storage behind them.

- Improve the performance and reliability of services, database queries, endpoints and caching across critical workflows.

- Take part in the on-call rotation for the systems you build

**What we'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

- User-centric, empathetic, and passionate about your work

- **Nice to have:** AI/LLM product experience, startup experience

**Why you'll love working here**

- **Hard, open problems.** Nobody hands you a finished spec. You'll decide what to build with your PM and designer, then own how it performs.

- **The reach of a unicorn, the headcount of a startup. We went from $1M to $100M ARR in under four years, with fewer than 200 people. **That means more pie than people: scope grows with your impact. Customers like T-Mobile, LinkedIn, HubSpot, New York Life and Northern Trust run on Scribe, so what you own reaches some of the biggest names in business.

- **Smart is the floor. Kind is the bar. **Low ego, high standards. We compete as a collective and love to see each other win, and One Team, One Dream is one of the most shouted-out values in #values.

**Compensation & Location**
Hybrid, based in San Francisco. We work from the office 3 days per week, with Mondays and Wednesdays being anchor days.
All full-time employees receive equity in Scribe. Final offers depend on experience and scope.

**Benefits**

- **Healthcare Coverage** – Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including two $0/month medical plan options for employees

- **Equity** – Ownership in what we’re building

- **401(k)** plan through Vestwell

- **Flex Benefit** – $500/year for home office equipment, productivity tools, learning & development or fitness/wellness

- **Commuter Benefits** – $100/month for SF based employees

- **PTO** – Flexible paid time off and company holidays

- **Parental Leave** – Paid leave to support growing families

- **Wellness & Family Support** – Free Talkspace membership, One Medical access (location-dependent), and Kindbody discounts for family planning

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