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Backend Engineer

Ketch · San Francisco · United States

Remote Full time USD 130k–140k / year Posted Open until 18 Oct 2026
  • Remote Remote-friendly with flexible scheduling built around core collaboration hours — job description
  • Unlimited leave Unlimited PTO, with employees encouraged to take at least 15 days a year — job description

The job, in the employer's words

Ketch is redefining responsible data use for the AI era. Thousands of brands rely on our software to responsibly collect, control, and activate compliant, clean data across their enterprise ecosystem. The Ketch Data Permissioning Platform simplifies privacy and consent operations, increases revenue from advertising, data, and AI initiatives, and builds trust with customers and partners. Unlike legacy tools that stop at cookie banners, Ketch governs how data is actually used across a company’s entire stack, with no-code setup that gets customers live in weeks, not quarters.

As privacy regulations expand across the globe and AI transforms how companies use data, the demand for what Ketch has built has never been greater. Data privacy sits at the intersection of law, technology, and consumer trust, making it one of the most exciting and fastest-moving fields in software today.

Why Join Us?

At Ketch, we’re serious about our values of passion, growth, grit, collaboration, and integrity. We’re a 65-person, Series B company backed by top-tier investors, and we’re looking for people who want to do the best work of their careers while shaping how the world handles data responsibly. We’re a rapidly growing, fast-paced, mission-based organization filled with a passionate, close-knit team all operating at the top of their game.

Benefits and Perks

  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for US-based full-time employees
  • Unlimited PTO, with employees encouraged to take at least 15 days a year
  • 10 paid company holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Remote-friendly with flexible scheduling built around core collaboration hours
  • Commuter benefits for office-based employees
Who we are 
Ketch is a Series B data privacy B2B SaaS redefining responsible data use for the AI era. The Ketch Data Permissioning Platform is the new layer of business technology that helps brands collect, control, and activate permissioned, privacy-safe data across every device, system, and third-party app.
 
Brands around the world use Ketch to simplify privacy and consent operations, increase revenue from advertising, data, and AI initiatives, and build trust with customers and partners.
 
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 modeling
  • Have 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

The US Base Salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 - $140,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Information collected and processed as part of any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Ketch's Applicant and Employee Privacy Notice.

Ketch is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law.

If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by emailing nicole.jeans@ketch.com.

Ketch is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

To all recruitment agencies: Ketch does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Ketch employees, or any other organization location. Ketch is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Benefits mentioned

  • At Ketch, we’re serious about our values of passion, growth, grit, collaboration, and integrity. We’re a 65-person, Series B company backed by top-tier investors, and we’re looking for people who want to do the best work of their careers while shaping how the world handles data responsibly. We’re a rapidly growing, fast-paced, mission-based organization filled with a passionate, close-knit team all operating at the top of their game.
  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for US-based full-time employees
  • Unlimited PTO, with employees encouraged to take at least 15 days a year
  • 10 paid company holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Remote-friendly with flexible scheduling built around core collaboration hours
  • Commuter benefits for office-based employees

Requirements mentioned

  • 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.

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Remote share — Backend Engineer jobs in United States

86% are remote

69 of 80 jobs we have listed

How long they stay open — Backend Engineer jobs in United States

54 days median time open before the listing ended

Based on 10 ended listings

Advertised pay — Backend Engineer jobs in United States

USD 195k median advertised pay / year

Middle half: USD 175k – USD 225k

From 54 listings that state pay