Senior Analytics Engineer — Payments, Identity & Trust (Flexible)

Scribd, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 149,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Scribd Flex

Health coverage

Mental health support

Paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement matching

Equity program

Learning & development

Wellness stipend

Product access

AI tools access

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking an accomplished Analytics Engineering leader focused on payments, identity, security, and trust & safety pillars. You will define authoritative metric definitions and ensure numbers stay comparable across migrations, models, and markets.

You will report to the Director, Analytics Engineering and work with Product Analytics, Data Science, Product, and Engineering partners. This is a senior, leadership‑level, purely technical role with no direct reports.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, BI engineering or related fields.
• Deep payments expertise with processor data (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, PayPal)
• Practical experience with identity and authentication data
• Depth in governed data models and semantic layers, metric versioning
• Advanced SQL and production experience with Databricks, AWS, Looker, Airbyte, Fivetran
• Experience making data reliable for AI consumption
• Proven ability to influence senior product and engineering leaders and translate payment economics into clear business trade-offs

Responsibilities

• Own the canonical data models for payments, billing, and subscriptions across Scribd and related products.
• Own the KPI and semantic layer for payments and identity exposed through self-serve dashboards and AI tools.
• Extend discipline to Trust & Safety, owning models and metrics behind prevalence and exposure.
• Drive quality, observability, and lineage to catch changes in days, not quarters.
• Build AI tools on trusted foundations with validated evaluation sets.
• Raise the technical bar, define metric conventions, and mentor analysts and engineers.

Skills

Analytics engineering

Payments data

SQL

Databricks

Looker

Tools

Airbyte

Fivetran

AWS

Looker

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is seeking an accomplished Analytics Engineering leader focused on payments, identity, security, and trust & safety pillars. You will define authoritative metric definitions and ensure numbers stay comparable across migrations, models, and markets.

You will report to the Director, Analytics Engineering and work with Product Analytics, Data Science, Product, and Engineering partners. This is a senior, leadership‑level, purely technical role with no direct reports.