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.
Lead design, implementation, and scaling of core infrastructure across compute (ECS), data (Postgres, Redis), observability (Datadog, Grafana), and networking layersOptimize deployment pipelines, test environments, and release automation to improve developer efficiency and reduce operational riskMonitor and improve production system uptime, latency, and cost performanceCollaborate with engineers to tune service performance, database access patterns, and caching strategiesOwn capacity planning, system reliability, and on-call best practices — proactively preventing incidents, not just reacting to themDrive architectural decisions for high-throughput API services, balancing long-term scalability with short-term velocityContribute to tooling and processes that foster operational excellence across the engineering organizationLead infrastructure projects from roadmap through rollout, always anchored in business impact and product goalsMentor teammates and model a high standard for engineering quality, documentation, and decision-makingTech Stack