Staff Systems Engineer

About Inscribe

At Inscribe, we're on a mission to enable instant trust in financial services by building an AI workforce for risk teams. We pioneered AI Document Fraud detection, creating the category and leading the market. We're now at the forefront of building AI agents to support fraud and compliance teams with manual investigations and KYB checks.

Founded in 2017, Inscribe is trusted by leading banks and fintechs, including Coinbase, 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.

The Opportunity

Inscribe is scaling quickly, and our platform sits at the heart of our customers’ fraud workflows. We’re hiring a Staff Systems Engineer to take ownership of the systems and infrastructure that support our real-time API product and internal services.

This role blends DevOps, site reliability, cloud architecture, backend engineering, and datastore optimization. You'll work across the entire stack to drive performance, observability, scalability, and operational rigor. You'll be instrumental in ensuring that as our customer base and data volumes grow, our systems stay fast, stable, and cost-efficient.

We’re looking for a high-agency engineer who can evaluate what exists today, identify what won’t scale, and execute improvements aligned with our business goals. This is a hands-on role for someone who thinks in systems, builds with urgency, and raises the engineering bar across the company.

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
  
  

Tech Stack

We don't expect candidates to know everything, but experience in most of these areas will be helpful:

• Cloud: AWS (ECS, S3, Bedrock, etc.)
• Infrastructure: Terraform, Docker
• Observability: Datadog, Grafana
• Datastores: Postgres, Redis
• Languages: Python (Django), VueJS
• AI Platforms: Anthropic, AWS Bedrock
  
  

About You

• 8+ 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
  
  

Interview Process

• Initial Screen with our CTO to share your experience (45 min)
• Take Home Technical Exercise followed by a live discussion with 1-2 team members to assess your technical ability (1 hour)
• Check In Call with the Head of People to understand your motivations and expectations (30 minutes)
• Meet our CEO to discuss Inscribe’s vision and align on values (45 minutes)
  
  

Benefits

At Inscribe, we are building a company and culture where everyone can produce their best work. Here are a few of our awesome benefits:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Unlimited vacation policy
• 401(k) and pension plans
• Complete work setup
• Wellness stipend
  
  

Inscribe provides equity employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regards to race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, genetics, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by company policy.

Compensation Range: €124K - €135K