Staff Software Engineer, AI & Developer Tooling
About The Position
Scribd, Inc. is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join their Developer Tooling team. This role is foundational and will shape how Scribd builds software in an AI-first world. The engineer will set the technical direction for the agentic engineering platform, defining how engineers work alongside coding agents to write, review, and ship code. They will evolve the development environment to make AI agents true collaborators and partner with senior leaders to define the agentic engineering strategy. This role is expected to raise the technical bar across the organization.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering
- Hands-on experience applying AI to real software development problems.
- 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 Haves
- 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
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
