Software Engineer II, Developer Tooling

Overview

About The Company:

At Scribd Inc. (pronounced “scribbed”), our mission is to spark human curiosity. Join our team as we create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas and information, and empower collective expertise through our four products:
Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable.

This posting reflects an approved, open position within the organization.

We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer.

When it comes to workplace structure, we believe in balancing individual flexibility and community connections. It’s through our flexible work benefit, Scribd Flex, that employees – in partnership with their manager – can choose the daily work-style that best suits their individual needs. A key tenet of Scribd Flex is our prioritization of intentional in-person moments to build collaboration, culture, and connection.

For this reason, occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd Inc. employees, regardless of their location.

We hire for “GRIT” — the intersection of passion and perseverance towards long-term goals. GRIT means setting and achieving goals, delivering results, contributing innovative ideas, and positively influencing the team through collaboration and attitude.

The Developer Tooling team empowers Scribd engineers across the software development lifecycle. We build and evolve tools and frameworks that power engineering workflows, modernize infrastructure, optimize build and deployment processes, and expand development capabilities. Our work drives broad, meaningful impact by boosting productivity and elevating the developer experience company-wide.

• Create and maintain internal libraries, components, and utilities used by Scribd engineers
• Make improvements to our AWS infrastructure, including application networking and traffic routing, using Terraform
• Build, maintain, and improve tools and frameworks that streamline development workflows, including modernizing tooling, optimizing build processes, and enhancing development capabilities
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional teams to identify bottlenecks and implement solutions that increase efficiency and productivity

• 4+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Proficient in one of the following languages:
  Go (Golang), Ruby, Type Script, or Python
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Comfortable navigating modern cloud infrastructure and platform engineering workflows
• Infrastructure as code and cloud automation experience, including AWS and Terraform

• Developer tooling CLIs
• Application networking, traffic routing, CDN configuration, and caching strategies
• Observability, performance profiling, and optimization

• A passion for improving developer experience and productivity
• A thoughtful approach to platform engineering that balances stability, speed, and simplicity

At Scribd, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based on local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States. In the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $126,000 (minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California) and $196,000 (maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California).

In the United States, outside of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $103,500 (minimum salary in our lowest US geographic market outside of California) and $186,500 (maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California).

In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $131,500 CAD (minimum salary in our lowest geographic market) and $174,500 CAD (maximum salary in our highest geographic market).

We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience;…