Backend Software Engineer at Ketch
San Francisco, CA
$100,000–$130,000
Jul 6, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role at an early-stage data privacy and cybersecurity startup, focused on building and operating large-scale, cloud-native microservices primarily in Golang. The work involves designing fault-tolerant distributed systems, working with a range of data stores and processing pipelines, and applying data security and protection techniques to solve enterprise-scale privacy problems. Suited to engineers with 1–3 years of experience in production backend systems.
Mid level · 1+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,450 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,100–1,900
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting states 1–3 years of experience, which maps to a Mid-level band; the title carries no seniority label.
Go is the primary language ('ideal'), with Java, Python, and Scala listed as acceptable alternatives — captured as alternatives on the Go skill.
The cloud platform requirement names AWS, GCP, and Azure as interchangeable; AWS is listed first and the others are captured as alternatives.
The data store technologies (Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch) and GitHub Actions/Git appear in a narrative 'your tech friends would say you' section rather than a formal requirements block, so they are marked preferred. The same section also drives the CI/CD, Kubernetes, distributed systems, microservices, and cloud platform signals, but those are framed with firm language ('really know', 'dead serious', 'good at') and are core to the role's stated responsibilities, so they are treated as hard gates.
No compensation range is disclosed in the posting.
The role is described as hybrid (not fully remote), based in San Francisco, CA.
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