Staff Rust Engineer, Core Infrastructure & Content Library

Scribd, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. in San Francisco, CA, seeks a senior systems engineer to own the Content Library and Core Infrastructure backend.

You will design, build, and operate Rust services, evolve Python tooling, and partner with ML, search, product, and data teams to shape a scalable platform. You will lead end-to-end feature development, drive performance and cost-efficiency, strengthen data governance, and mentor engineers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Rust and Python.
• Strong knowledge of object storage (S3), Parquet/Arrow, and relational DBs.
• Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency services and operations.
• Leadership experience mentoring engineers and guiding cross-team projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the Content Library's core Rust services.
• Own features end-to-end from design to production.
• Evolve Python tooling and support engineers across the company.
• Lead cross-functional projects with ML, search, product, and data teams.
• Drive performance and cost-efficiency across the stack.
• Strengthen governance via data lineage and access controls.
• Mentor teammates and improve developer workflows.

Skills

Rust

Python

AWS

S3

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Terraform

DataFusion

Data governance

Tools

Apache DataFusion

arrow-rs

Parquet

Job description

Scribd, Inc. in San Francisco, CA, seeks a senior systems engineer to own the Content Library and Core Infrastructure backend.

You will design, build, and operate Rust services, evolve Python tooling, and partner with ML, search, product, and data teams to shape a scalable platform. You will lead end-to-end feature development, drive performance and cost-efficiency, strengthen data governance, and mentor engineers.