Backend Engineer

Ketch

Backend Engineer developing scalable solutions for enterprise data privacy and security. Collaborating with stakeholders and owning a microservice architecture in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesJunior💰 $140,000 - $175,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCassandraCloudDynamoDBElasticSearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesOpen SourcePostgresPythonRedisScala

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

1-3 years of experience in software engineering
Have built production systems and services in Golang (ideal) or Java/Python/Scala
Have a deep understanding of domain driven data modeling
Have built production services in cloud-native environment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

health insurance
retirement plans
paid time off
flexible work arrangements
professional development
bonuses
stock options
equipment allowances
wellness programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

GolangJavaPythonScaladata modelingDevExKubernetesperformance tuningmicroservice architecturedata security

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationownershipproblem-solvingcreativity