Staff Software Engineer, Ai Developer Platform

About the Team 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.

About the Role This is a foundational Staff‑level hire that will shape how Scribd builds software in an AI‑first world. You will set the technical direction for our agentic engineering platform, defining how hundreds of engineers work alongside coding agents to write, review, and ship code across our stack. You will evolve our development environment so AI agents become true collaborators alongside humans, partner with senior leaders to define our agentic engineering strategy, and raise the technical bar well beyond your immediate team.

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

What You Will Do Set the technical direction for AI‑assisted and agentic development at Scribd, defining 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, scoping ambiguous, cross‑org problems and owning 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. We're Looking For 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 have 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.

Compensation In San Francisco, the expected salary range is $176,500–$275,000. Outside of California, the range is $145,000–$261,500. In Canada, it is 184,500 CAD–244,500 CAD.

Equity and benefits are also available as part of the total compensation package. 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 Equal Employment Opportunity 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 [email protected].

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 creates a foundation for the best ideas. #J-18808-Ljbffr