Senior Backend Engineer, Content Foundations
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About the role
We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience; job-related skill sets; relevant education or training; and other business and organizational needs. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.
What you'll bring
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience navigating the trade-offs of refactoring legacy systems while maintaining high availability.
- Experience building and scaling ingestion pipelines, ETL workflows, or document/content processing systems.
- Comfortable working with messy data and building systems resilient to real-world inputs.
- Proficient in Ruby, Python, or Go (our stack includes all three).
- Experience with AWS (Lambda, SQS/SNS, S3, Step Functions) and distributed workflows.
- Strong database design skills (SQL and/or NoSQL), with a focus on reliability and resilience.
- Able to communicate technical complexity to non-technical stakeholders and have a track record of building consensus across cross-functional engineering teams.
- Enjoy mentoring others and working collaboratively across teams.
- Experience with document formats (PDF, ebooks, markdown) and internals (OCR, parsing, transformation).
- Familiarity with ML/AI systems (embeddings, chunking, retrieval pipelines).
- Background in spam or content security systems.
- If you enjoy working on complex, high-scale systems where solving foundational problems unlocks value across an entire ecosystem, we'd love to hear from you.