Backend Software Engineer

Who we are  We are an early-stage startup disrupting the data privacy and cybersecurity market. Our patented technology empowers businesses and software engineers with a deploy-once, comply-and-secure-everywhere framework for exerting perfect control over every scrap of responsibly gathered data. This intelligent and pervasive data fabric underpins our vision to move from rules to tools to ensure privacy is respected as an essential human right.   ‍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 itʼs 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

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