New York City, New York, United States Hybrid

Scribd, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, AI & Developer Tooling

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical direction for AI-assisted and agentic development at Scribd. Define the architecture, patterns, and guardrails that let engineers and coding agents collaborate safely and effectively across our codebase, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure.
  • Design and evolve the architecture of Scribd's internal tools, libraries, components, and utilities, setting standards that engineers across the organization rely on daily
  • Drive company-wide initiatives in partnership with engineering leadership. Scope ambiguous, cross-org problems and own them end-to-end.
  • Be a force multiplier. Mentor senior and staff engineers, serve as an internal expert and coach to teams adopting AI in their workflows, and evangelize new capabilities across the engineering org.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Hands-on experience applying AI to real software development problems. You've shipped, measured, or meaningfully contributed to AI-assisted or agentic developer tooling in production, and you stay current as the landscape evolves.
  • Demonstrated Staff-level impact: influencing technical direction well beyond your immediate team, mentoring senior engineers, translating complex technical ideas into clear narratives, and raising the engineering bar for the organizations you've been part of
  • Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Go (Golang), Ruby, TypeScript, or Python

Nice to Have

  • Significant time spent in developer experience, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering
  • Deep familiarity with AWS and Terraform in production environments at meaningful scale
  • Experience operating containerized workloads on Kubernetes in production

Benefits

  • Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Mental health support and disability coverage
  • Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals
  • Paid parental leave and family support benefits
  • Retirement matching and employee equity
  • Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities
  • Wellness and home office stipends
  • Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products
  • Enterprise access to leading AI tools

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Structure: The Developer Tooling team empowers Scribd engineers across the entire software development lifecycle. We build and evolve the tools, frameworks, and platforms that power engineering workflows — from modernizing infrastructure and optimizing build and deployment processes to pioneering agentic engineering capabilities that let AI agents collaborate alongside our developers.

Additional Information

  • Employees must have their primary residence in or near one of the following cities. This includes surrounding metro areas or locations within a typical commuting distance:
  • This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.
Required Skills
AWS
About company
Scribd, Inc.

Scribd, Inc. is a knowledge company on a mission to advance human understanding. The company powers a diverse ecosystem of products designed to help people move from information access to real understanding and application.

Its platform includes Scribd, an applied knowledge platform with over 300 million documents; Slideshare, a vast collection of professional presentations; Everand, a digital subscription service for ebooks, audiobooks, and podcasts; and Fable, a social reading platform for curated book clubs and personalized reading experiences.

With over 400 million pieces of content, 250 million monthly visitors, and 2 million paying subscribers, Scribd, Inc. serves a global audience across multiple languages and formats.

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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 2 months ago