Principal Engineer ( AI + Dev Tooling)

This is a Principal Engineer role, and it comes with a clear mandate: define how Scribd builds software as AI changes the work. The Developer Tooling team empowers Scribd engineers across the entire software development lifecycle, building and evolving the tools, frameworks, and platforms that power engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

Decide the architecture, patterns, and guardrails that let engineers and coding agents work together across the codebase, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure, and set the direction for where it goes next; Set the direction for Scribd's internal tools, libraries, and platforms, setting standards that engineers across the company rely on; Partner with engineering leaders to turn ambiguous, cross-org problems into initiatives, and own them from framing through delivery; Raise the bar across the org by mentoring staff and senior engineers, coaching teams to get more out of agents in their day-to-day workflows, and rolling out new capabilities throughout engineering; Own the technical vision for agentic engineering at Scribd, working directly with the CTO and engineering leadership

Requirements

10+ years in software engineering, including time operating at the Staff or Principal level; Hands-on experience applying AI to real software problems, including shipping, measuring, or meaningfully moving agentic developer tooling in production; Depth in the mechanics of agentic systems: agent runtimes and harnesses, tool use and context management, and evals; A track record of organization-wide technical impact, including setting direction that outlasts any single project, mentoring senior and staff engineers, and making complex technical ideas clear to leadership and engineers; Significant time in developer experience, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering

Benefits

Scribd Flex (flexible work model); Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage; Mental health support and disability coverage; Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals; Paid parental leave and family support benefits; Retirement matching and employee equity; Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities; Wellness and home office stipends; Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products; Enterprise access to leading AI tools; Competitive equity ownership