Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure (Rust/Python)

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

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. in California is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the Content Library core services written in Rust, with a Python userland, and to drive end-to-end feature development for high-scale storage infrastructure.

You will mentor others, review designs, improve observability, and partner with ML, search, product, and data teams while focusing on performance, cost-efficiency, and secure data governance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the Content Library's core Rust services at scale.
• Own features end-to-end from design to production operations.
• Evolve the Python userland 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: data lineage, access controls, and deletion propagation.
• Mentor the team through reviews and improvements to the developer environment.

Skills

Rust backend

Python

Tools

AWS

Terraform

PostgreSQL

MySQL

S3

Job description

Scribd, Inc. in California is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the Content Library core services written in Rust, with a Python userland, and to drive end-to-end feature development for high-scale storage infrastructure.

You will mentor others, review designs, improve observability, and partner with ML, search, product, and data teams while focusing on performance, cost-efficiency, and secure data governance.