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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** FABLE SECURITY, LLP
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Application Layers, Data as a Services, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Django Web Framework, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Cloud Platform System, Palo Alto Networks, Build Tools, Terraform, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/backend-engineer-fable-security-8406334

## About the Role

* 3+ years developing backend software
 * Designed, implemented, and owned production-facing services
 * Experience with one of:
 + Experience building and integrating with external APIs a plus
 + Relational DB backends (Django or similar)
 + Experience building ETL and data pipelines a plus
 + Experience with building distributed systems and backends
 + Experience with AWS, terraform, EKS, and cloud systems
 * Strong desire to be part of an early team and create foundational systems

## Description

You will work on the team that owns our data platform, including real-time API integrations, Kafka-based streaming systems, Spark and Airflow data pipelines, and the data services that power our application layer. You take pride in building reliable, maintainable, and scalable infrastructure that turns complex data flows into high-quality services for the product. You can translate product and customer requirements into durable platform designs, make thoughtful technical tradeoffs, and build systems that anticipate our needs as we evolve., * We emphasize mutual trust, high execution, and delivering differentiated product experiences.

 * We are an AI-native company, and Fable engineers are excited to use AI-powered development practices to move faster, improve quality, and continuously evolve how they build software.
 * We prioritize impact-every team member plays a key role in shaping our success.

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $135,000 - $250,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual's relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors.


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