# Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure 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: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ScribdInc/ab6eba49-d919-4fab-a20c-58d8e92adf61
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scribd-staff-software-engineer-core-infrastructure/

## About the role

Design, build, and operate the Content Library's core Rust services (transactional storage, transform coordination, and low-latency retrieval paths) at the scale of hundreds of billions of objects. Own features end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations (observability, on-call, and incident response for the systems you own).

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems
- Production experience writing Rust and strong proficiency in Python
- A deep understanding of storage and data fundamentals: object storage (S3), columnar formats (Apache Parquet/Arrow), and relational databases (PostgreSQL and/or MySQL)
- A track record of designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency services, including the operational side: metrics, tracing, alerting, and debugging production systems
- Demonstrated technical leadership: leading projects across team boundaries, writing design docs that build alignment, and mentoring engineers
- Experience with AWS (e.g., S3, Lambda, ECS, Aurora) and infrastructure-as-code workflows (e.g., Terraform)

Tags: Engineering