Software Engineer, AI & Developer Tooling

Culture at Scribd, Inc.

Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding. Our four products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.

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.

We believe the best work happens when individual flexibility is balanced with meaningful community connection. Scribd Flex empowers employees to choose the workstyle and location that support their best performance, while committing to intentional in-person moments that strengthen collaboration and culture. Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd, Inc. employees, regardless of location.

So what are we looking for in new team members? At Scribd, Inc., we hire for “GRIT.” Traditionally defined as the intersection of passion and perseverance toward long-term goals, GRIT reflects the mindset we expect from every employee. For us, it also serves as a practical framework for how we work: setting and achieving Goals, delivering Results within your role, contributing Innovative ideas and solutions, and strengthening the broader Team through collaboration and attitude.

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. Our work delivers broad, measurable impact by boosting productivity and elevating the developer experience company-wide.

This is a foundational Staff-level hire that will shape how Scribd builds software in an AI-first world.

You have a passion for improving developer experience and productivity, and you're energized by removing friction from engineering workflows. You take a thoughtful approach to platform engineering that balances stability, speed, and simplicity. You're all-in on AI changing how software gets built, and you've already been applying it to your own work.

• Set the technical direction for AI-assisted and agentic development ine 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.

• 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, Type Script, or Python.

• 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

At Scribd, Inc. your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based…