3 hours ago
Base Salary
$141k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for the Everand backend through design documents, architecture reviews, and concrete backend designs.
- Own backend reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queues, cost, and observability.
- Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, knowledge-sharing, and a high bar for design, testing, and operations.
- Represent Everand backend engineering in cross-team planning and cross-functional execution.
- Build scalable, resilient, and observable systems while modernizing legacy systems and reducing technical debt.
- Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, Web, Mobile, and ML Engineering to support experimentation and shared data systems.
- Use data, metrics, and telemetry to identify trends, resolve anomalies, and improve reading and listening experiences.
Requirements
- Significant backend engineering experience with a strong track record building and scaling distributed systems.
- Strong coding ability in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby, Scala, Go, or Python, with Ruby preferred.
- Experience defining SLOs, implementing metrics and alerts, and debugging distributed systems.
- Proven technical leadership in setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale migrations or modernization efforts.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with senior product, design, and ML partners.
- Experience improving reliability, latency, or throughput in large-scale distributed systems is a plus.
- Experience working with ML teams on recommendation or feed systems is a plus.
- Familiarity with experimentation or feature-flagging platforms is a plus.
Benefits
- Scribd Flex flexible work model with occasional in-person attendance required.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, plus mental health support and disability coverage.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals.
- Paid parental leave and family support benefits.
- Retirement matching, employee equity, learning and development programs, and professional growth opportunities.
- Wellness and home office stipends, complimentary access to Scribd products, and enterprise access to leading AI tools.
- Employees must reside in or near an approved metro area in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.
