Scribd

Software Engineer (Backend), Content Foundations

San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 56 days ago

PythonRubyBackend DevelopmentSQLAWSMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringLLMsCollaboration

About the role

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.

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.
Grow your craft: Learn the domain deeply, take on increasingly ambitious problems, and develop your craft intentionally.
Evolving content formats to support downstream AI workflows
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.
Implement production-quality services that handle diverse file formats, malformed inputs, retries, asynchronous workflows, and edge cases.
Partner with ML Engineering, Search & Discovery, the Content Library squad, and Product to build systems that balance performance, scalability, and user experience.
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.

4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including exposure to production-scale systems.
Experience with backend services, data pipelines, or content-processing systems, depth in any one of these is enough.
Our four products - Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable - help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.

Experience with document formats (PDF, ebooks, markdown) and internals (parsing, OCR, transformation).
Familiarity with ML/AI systems (embeddings, chunking, retrieval pipelines).
San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States.
We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience
job-related skill sets
and other business and organizational needs.
WORKING AT SCRIBD, INC.
Employees must have their primary residence in or near one of the following cities.

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

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
Scribd Flex (flexible work model)

The Content Foundations team builds the systems that power how content is uploaded, processed, and delivered across Scribd products.
This includes everything from ingestion, metadata extraction, early quality controls, and the core artifacts that power search, recommendations, AI/ML systems, and the reading and listening experience.

This listing is sourced directly from Scribd's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.