*Scribd
World's largest online library.
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- Founded
- 2012
- Employees
- 300
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Trip Adler
- Type
- Private
About
Scribd gives you access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more — all in one place, for one price. OUR VISION Inspire the world through stories and knowledge. OUR MISSION Build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience. If you love working with smart, motivated people, you’ll love working at Scribd. We value our employees, we demonstrate accountability, and we take action. We’re one team with a common goal: helping our customers flourish.
Open positions
Staff Software Engineer, Core Everand
Staff-level backend engineer on Scribd's Everand (ebooks/audiobooks) core team, owning the backend platform behind web and mobile reading: setting technical direction, driving architecture, and owning reliability, CI/CD, and observability. Stack centers on Ruby (preferred) or Scala/Go/Python with distributed systems work.
Staff Cloud Security Engineer
Staff Cloud Security Engineer who sets the technical direction for cloud security at Scribd: hardening AWS and GCP identity, securing Kubernetes workloads and CI/CD, and building Terraform modules and policy-as-code guardrails, while leading cross-team initiatives and mentoring engineers.
Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Staff Software Engineer for Core Infrastructure at Scribd, designing and operating a scalable content storage platform (Rust/Python) handling billions of objects for media products like Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable. Focuses on transactional storage, data transforms, low-latency retrieval, and governance at massive scale.