Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Platform

Scribd, Inc.•San Francisco, CA

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a foundational Staff-level hire that will shape how Scribd builds software in an AI-first world. The role involves setting the technical direction for the agentic engineering platform, defining how engineers work alongside coding agents to write, review, and ship code across the stack. The Staff Software Engineer will evolve the development environment to enable AI agents to become true collaborators with humans, partner with senior leaders to define the agentic engineering strategy, and raise the technical bar across the organization.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant time spent in developer experience, platform engineering, or infrastructure 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.
Deep familiarity with AWS and Terraform in production environments at meaningful scale
Experience operating containerized workloads on Kubernetes in production
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

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.

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