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The role is heavily focused on distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability, and scalability, with significant ownership over their Temporal architecture.\nAbout the Role\nSenior Backend Engineer to own a critical data ingestion platform, including OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing, with a heavy focus on distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability, scalability, and significant ownership over their Temporal architecture.\nResponsibilities Own a critical data ingestion platform, including OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing.\nFocus on distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability, and scalability.\nTake significant ownership over their Temporal architecture.\nWork with Docker, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure.\nBuild durable, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems. Qualifications Must be eligible to work in the US Required Skills 5+ years of backend engineering experience\n3+ years of Python\nStrong production experience with Temporal\nSolid distributed systems fundamentals\nStrong AWS experience\nExperience operating and debugging production systems Preferred Skills Experience with Python, Temporal, AWS, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Redis\nExperience with distributed systems and long-running workflows\nExperience with OCR, document processing, embeddings, and AI/CV pipelines\nExperience with Docker, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure\nExperience building durable, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems Pay range and compensation package Comp: $180-220K base + equity\nLocation: Hybrid, 2 days onsite in Redwood City Equal Opportunity Statement\nInformation about equal opportunity, diversity, and inclusivity was not provided in the original job description.\nAdditional Details Python, Temporal, AWS, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Redis\nDistributed systems and long-running workflows\nOCR, document processing, embeddings, and AI/CV pipelines\nDocker, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure\nBuilding durable, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2352,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T21:51:31Z"}],"liveness":{"score":40,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.397,"p_room":1,"age_days":13,"expected_fill_days":46,"reasons":["conf:7","agency","stale_co","urgency","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":220000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-senior-backend-engineer-document-ingestion","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-senior-backend-engineer-document-ingestion.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T04:43:06Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4228,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":772,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}