Salary Range: 140000 to 175000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

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
2-3 years of experience in software engineering

Compensation Overview

Below is a detailed breakdown of responsibilities:

Your tech friends would say you:

6 month growth

1 year growth

2 year growth