Staff Systems Engineer
About the role
Staff Systems Engineer at Inscribe responsible for ownership of systems and infrastructure supporting real-time API product and internal services. Combines DevOps, site reliability, cloud architecture, backend engineering, and datastore optimization to improve performance, observability, scalability, and operational rigor in a high-growth environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead design, implementation, and scaling of core infrastructure across compute (ECS), data (Postgres, Redis), observability (Datadog, Grafana), and networking layers
- Optimize deployment pipelines, test environments, and release automation to improve developer efficiency and reduce operational risk
- Monitor and improve production system uptime, latency, and cost performance
- Collaborate with engineers to tune service performance, database access patterns, and caching strategies
- Own capacity planning, system reliability, and on-call best practices — proactively preventing incidents, not just reacting to them
- Drive architectural decisions for high-throughput API services, balancing long-term scalability with short-term velocity
- Contribute to tooling and processes that foster operational excellence across the engineering organization
- Lead infrastructure projects from roadmap through rollout, always anchored in business impact and product goals
- Mentor teammates and model a high standard for engineering quality, documentation, and decision-making
Qualifications
- 4+ years of hands-on experience across systems engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud architecture
- Proven ability to scale production systems and infrastructure in high-growth environments
- Deep familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and data-heavy backend systems
- Strong backend development skills in Python, with an ability to get deep into the codebase
- Passion for reducing toil, automating operational tasks, and improving engineering velocity
- Business-aware mindset: You can align infrastructure decisions with product goals and growth strategy
- Pragmatic, high-agency problem solver — able to balance short-term delivery with long-term vision
- You’re energized by wearing many hats, pushing technical boundaries, and leading by example
Skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Unlimited vacation policy
- 401(k) and pension plans
- Complete work setup
- Monthly wellness stipend
About Inscribe
Risk Ops Automation
Inscribe’s award-winning Risk Intelligence technology is the most effective way for fintechs and banks to automate manual reviews. Inscribe can reduce fraud losses and operational costs while increasing the accuracy and efficiency of risk decisions. Founded in 2017, Inscribe is trusted by leading fintechs like TripActions, Plaid, Bluevine, and Ramp. Inscribe is backed by Threshold Ventures, Uncork Capital, Y Combinator, Crosslink Capital, and Foundry, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Learn more at inscribe.ai.
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