Backend Engineer

Benefits and Perks

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for US-based full-time employees
• Unlimited PTO, with employees encouraged to take at least 15 days a year
• 10 paid company holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Remote-friendly with flexible scheduling built around core collaboration hours
• Commuter benefits for office-based employees

What you will be doing at Ketch

We are looking for a highly skilled backend engineer who is comfortable with building and running large scale systems in cloud native ways. You will be solving challenging problems while learning a great deal and having fun at the same time.

What we are looking for

Our ideal candidate is a technical expert that gets things done by using their smarts and whatever tools make sense for the job at hand. Someone who loves to stand on the shoulders of giants to solve new problems and thrives in a rapidly innovating space working with other smart people.

This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of San Francisco, California:

Below is a detailed breakdown of responsibilities

• Build solutions to solve our enterprise customers' data privacy and security problems at scale
• Take ownership of what you build. Take pride in building it better and scaling it
• Develop server-side components primarily in Golang and interact with various data stores and processing pipelines
• Co-own a performing, fault-tolerant, highly secure microservice architecture and continuously evolve it
• Master data security and data protection techniques and put them into practice
• Work closely with stakeholders/customers to understand use cases and solutions end-to-end
• Collectively be responsible for the well-being of our SaaS production system - quality, performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency
• Invent and reinvent how we build, deploy and operate
• Keep abreast of technologies and tools. Embrace and contribute to open source communities

Your tech friends would say you

• Really know about scalable distributed systems
• Have built production systems and services in Golang (ideal) or Java/Python/Scala
• Have a deep understanding of domain driven data modelingHave built production services in cloud-native environment (AWS, GCP, Azure) and know where it s awesome and where it hurts
• Dead serious about tooling, best practices, automation - anything to improve DevEx
• Are a great communicator and collaborator
• Have dealt with complexities for mobile, web and mixed environments
• Really grok your CI/CD (Github Actions, etc), Database/Storage (Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, ScyllaDB, Postgres, ElasticSearch) and VCS (git/GitHub) tools
• Good at instrumenting, troubleshooting, performance tuning multi-tenant large scale Kubernetes deployments
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering

Pay and benefits

The US Base Salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 - $140,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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Ketch is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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