Scribd
Senior Engineering Manager, Backend (Content Foundations)
San Francisco · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 36 days ago
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About the role
- This is a leadership role at the intersection of large-scale data infrastructure and applied AI, and it carries three responsibilities in equal measure.
- You'll be the technical leader for the platform: setting the vision for real-time, AI-native ingestion, making the architectural calls that evolve a live, high-scale system, and holding the quality and reliability bar for a system the whole company depends on.
- You'll be the people leader for the team: hiring, growing, and inspiring a group of backend and AI data engineers, and shaping its culture, standards, and identity from its first days.
Responsibilities
- Build state-of-the-art AI into the heart of the platform, partnering with ML and AI teams so that every document is understood, trusted, and enriched by intelligent systems from the moment it arrives, and is ready for both human readers and AI agents.
- Turn platform capability into product impact, partnering with product to deliver the supply-side roadmap, make our content discoverable by readers, groundable by AI assistants and create visible wins for the contributors who grow the corpus.
- Lead, grow, and inspire a founding team of backend and AI data engineers, shaping its culture, hiring, technical standards, and career growth from day one.
- Run the team as a product, defining the roadmap, priorities, and commitments that teams across the content organization plan against, and building the operational excellence of a system the whole company depends on.
- Champion security as first-class design principles, building a platform that safely processes untrusted content at massive scale and safeguards the corpus.
- Enthusiasm for applied AI in production systems, with experience (or strong intent) integrating ML models, LLM-based document processing.
- A security-minded approach to building systems: you design for safe handling of untrusted input, least-privilege access, and data protection from the start.
- Clear, direct communication with product, engineering, and cross-functional partners.
- 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.
Requirements
- Our four products - Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable - help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.
- Familiarity with RAG and retrieval infrastructure, such as chunking strategies, embedding pipelines, vector search, or grounding systems for LLMs and agents.
- Experience on UGC or marketplace platforms where content quality, trust, and scale intersect.
Compensation
- At Scribd, Inc. your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range.
Benefits
- 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
- Own the vision and strategy for how content enters Scribd, and lead the evolution of one of the world's largest document platforms into a real-time, AI-native ingestion system.
- Operational excellence: reliability, observability, and on-call health are first-class engineering work for you.
- Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
Company info
- Content Foundations is a newly formed team at the center of Scribd, Inc.'s biggest strategic investment.
- Behind our UGC brands (Scribd and
- Slideshare) sits one of the largest corpora of human-created knowledge anywhere:
- hundreds of millions of documents and presentations.
- Every piece of that knowledge passes through one system.
- It's uploaded, understood, transformed, and served to millions of customers, and agents that cite it, ground it, and learn from it.
- Content Foundations owns that system, and its work lands in two places at once.
- It powers the product roadmap:
- faster uploads, richer document experiences, and the growth of the corpus.
- And it operates as a platform for the teams that build on it:
- trust & safety, content understanding, supply, and AI platform teams all consume its interfaces.
- What this team ships translates directly into product outcomes for users and velocity for every team downstream.
- Content sits at the very top of Scribd, Inc.'s strategy: it's the engine of our consumer brands and the foundation of our growth, and the ingestion platform is where all of it begins.
- hiring, growing, and inspiring a group of backend and AI data engineers, and shaping its culture, standards, and identity from its first days.
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