Principal Engineer, AI-Driven Dev Tooling & Platforms

Scribd, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 203,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Scribd Flex (flexible work model)

Comprehensive health, dental, and VISN

Mental health support and disability

Generous paid time off

Parental leave and family support

Retirement matching and equity

Learning and development programs

Wellness and home office stipends

Access to Scribd suite of products

Enterprise access to AI tools

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer to define how we build software as AI changes the work. You will own the technical vision for agentic engineering, deciding where we invest and setting standards used by hundreds of engineers across the stack.

You will partner with the CTO and engineering leadership to make agentic engineering a lasting advantage, shaping developer workflows and the tools they rely on every day.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering at staff or principal level.
• Hands-on experience applying AI to real software problems.
• Deep knowledge of agent runtimes and tool context management.
• Proven track record of organization-wide technical impact.
• Experience in developer experience, platform or infrastructure engineering.

Responsibilities

• Decide the architecture, patterns, and guardrails for engineers and coding agents across codebase, CI/CD, and infra.
• Set direction for Scribd's internal tools, libraries, and platforms.
• Partner with engineering leaders to turn ambiguous problems into initiatives and own delivery.
• Mentor staff and senior engineers, coach teams to maximize agent value, roll out capabilities.

Skills

Staff-level

AI in software

Agentic systems

Mentor engineers

Platform engineering

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer to define how we build software as AI changes the work. You will own the technical vision for agentic engineering, deciding where we invest and setting standards used by hundreds of engineers across the stack.

You will partner with the CTO and engineering leadership to make agentic engineering a lasting advantage, shaping developer workflows and the tools they rely on every day.