# Senior Engineering Manager, Backend (Content Foundations) at Scribd

- Company: Scribd
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator, CRV and Redpoint.
- Company website: http://scribd.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ScribdInc/de847514-c311-4712-adae-412761fa8e06
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scribd-senior-engineering-manager-backend-content-foundations/

## About the role

We're hiring the engineering manager for Content Foundations to build and lead the team that owns how content enters Scribd. This is a leadership role at the intersection of large-scale data infrastructure and applied AI, and it carries three responsibilities in equal measure.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years leading backend, data-infrastructure, or platform engineering teams
- Depth in high-throughput distributed systems and data pipelines: streaming and event-driven architectures, ingestion and transformation at scale, and the judgment to evolve a live, high-volume system toward real time while it keeps running
- Enthusiasm for applied AI in production systems, with experience (or strong intent) integrating ML models, LLM-based document processing
- A platform-product mindset: you've built systems other teams and product surfaces depend on, and you know how to design interfaces, SLAs
- A security-minded approach to building systems: you design for safe handling of untrusted input, least-privilege access, and data protection from the start
- Operational excellence: reliability, observability, and on-call health are first-class engineering work for you

Tags: Engineering