Staff Backend Engineer: Architecture, Reliability, Scale

Apply; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Everand Core team to shape backend systems powering discovery, personalization, and core consumption journeys for readers. You’ll own backend design, reliability, and cross‑functional collaboration with search, web, mobile, and ML partners.

We value clean, scalable code and thoughtful planning. You’ll mentor engineers, set architectural direction, modernize legacy systems, and partner with Product and Design to deliver experiences that

Qualifications

• Extensive backend experience with distributed systems.
• Proficient in modern backend languages (Ruby, Scala, Go, Python).
• Strong emphasis on reliability and observability (SLOs, metrics, alerts).
• Experience leading architecture, migrations, or modernization efforts.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction for Everand backend and design docs.
• Own backend reliability, CI/CD, databases, queues, observability.
• Mentor engineers, perform PR reviews, and raise team standards.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and ML teams to deliver backend systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Observability

Code quality

Tools

Ruby

Scala

Go

Python

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Everand Core team to shape backend systems powering discovery, personalization, and core consumption journeys for readers. You’ll own backend design, reliability, and cross‑functional collaboration with search, web, mobile, and ML partners.

We value clean, scalable code and thoughtful planning. You’ll mentor engineers, set architectural direction, modernize legacy systems, and partner with Product and Design to deliver experiences that