Scribd

Tech Lead, Analytics Engineering — Payments, Identity, Trust and Safety

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26 days ago
Toronto, Canada +10 moreStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$149k - $254k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own canonical data models for payments, billing, and subscriptions across Scribd, Everand, and Fable.
  • Own KPI definitions and the semantic layer for payments and identity, supporting self-service dashboards and AI tools.
  • Build models and metrics for trust and safety prevalence and exposure, including evaluation of AI-generated moderation labels.
  • Drive data quality, observability, lineage, root-cause analysis, and reliable handling of migrations and source-system changes.
  • Build AI tools grounded in certified metrics and tables and validate them with evaluation sets.
  • Set modeling and metric conventions, influence source-system changes, and mentor analysts and analytics engineers.
  • Translate payment economics and complex data issues into clear trade-offs for senior product and engineering leaders.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, business intelligence engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Deep hands-on payments expertise, including direct experience with processor data from Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, PayPal, or similar platforms.
  • Practical experience with identity and authentication data.
  • Strong experience with governed canonical data models, semantic layers, metric definition, metric defense, and versioning.
  • Advanced SQL and production experience with Databricks, AWS, Looker, Airbyte, Fivetran, or comparable platforms, including orchestration, transformation frameworks, and automated testing.
  • Experience making data reliable for AI consumption.
  • Advanced Python and experience building AI agents or LLM-based pipelines are preferred.
  • Experience with trust and safety or integrity measurement is preferred.
  • Experience with local payment methods in LATAM, APAC, or EU markets and stored-credential and network compliance frameworks is preferred.
  • Experience with on-call rotations and incident response for production data systems is preferred.

Benefits

  • Flexible Scribd Flex work model with occasional in-person attendance required and residence near an approved city.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision, mental health, disability, paid leave, parental leave, family support, retirement matching, and employee equity benefits.
  • Learning and development programs, wellness and home office stipends, complimentary access to Scribd products, and enterprise access to leading AI tools.
  • The role is available in specified metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Tech Stack

AirbyteAWSDatabricksPythonSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
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About Scribd

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