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Scribd, Inc.
Software Engineer (Backend), Content Foundations
Scribd, Inc.
New York•Hybrid•Salary•4-7 Yrs•1 hour ago
Job description
Hybrid
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to core content systems: Design and implement features within ingestion pipelines, metadata services, and content processing workflows, with guidance from senior engineers and the EM on scope and trade-offs.
- Build reliable, observable systems: Implement production-quality services that handle diverse file formats, malformed inputs, retries, asynchronous workflows, and edge cases.
- Collaborate across teams: Partner with ML Engineering, Search & Discovery, the Content Library squad, and Product to build systems that balance performance, scalability, and user experience.
- Improve content quality and discoverability: Work with ML and Discovery teams to enable improvements in metadata extraction, classification, and enrichment that power personalization and search.
- Leverage AI-driven engineering practices: Use LLM-based systems and AI coding agents in your day-to-day work, and share your learnings with the team.
- Grow your craft: Learn the domain deeply, take on increasingly ambitious problems, and develop your craft intentionally.
- Who You Are
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including exposure to production-scale systems.
Qualifications
- Comfortable working with messy data and building systems resilient to real-world inputs.
- Proficient in at least one of Ruby, Python, or Go, and willing to ramp up on the others (our stack includes all three).
- Working familiarity with AWS (e.g., Lambda, SQS/SNS, S3) or similar cloud resources.
- Comfortable working with relational databases (SQL).
- Clear written and verbal communicator, able to collaborate with teammates and partner teams.
- Collaborative and curious, eager to learn from peers and contribute back.
- Familiarity with ML/AI systems (embeddings, chunking, retrieval pipelines).
- If you’re interested in building the foundation for the next generation of content systems, powering discovery, personalization, AI, and richer experiences across Scribd products while learning from and contributing to a strong, collaborative team, we’d love to hear from you.
- 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 on the 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] to $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] to $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] to $174,500 CAD[maximum salary in our highest geographic market].
- Working at Scribd, Inc.
- Are you currently based in a location where Scribd, Inc. can employ you?
- 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:
- United States:
- Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Dallas | Denver | Chicago | Houston | Jacksonville | Los Angeles | Miami | New York City | Phoenix | Portland | Sacramento | Salt Lake City | San Diego | San Francisco | Seattle | Washington D.C.
- Ottawa | Toronto | Vancouver
- Mexico City
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
- Get to Know Scribd, Inc.
- About Scribd, Inc.
- Life at Scribd, Inc.
- We want our interview process to be accessible to everyone. You can inform us of any reasonable adjustments we can make to better accommodate your needs by emailing accommodations@scribd.com about the need for adjustments at any point in the interview process.
- If you apply for a job with Scribd or otherwise engage with us in connection with employment (including as an employee, contractor, or other personnel), the personal information we process in that context is subject to our Employee and Applicant Privacy Policy, which is available here.
- Scribd, Inc. is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply, and believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful.