Help us build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience.
Our readers are on a mission to become their best selves, and so are we. We’re not afraid to take risks because we know that — win or lose — we’ll learn from them.
If you’re a talented team player and want to work somewhere where your input matters, we’d love to talk with you.
Open PositionsWhy Scribd
We believe that the secret to making the perfect product is making Scribd the perfect place to work.
Benefits
Our team takes great care of us, in return, we take great care of them.
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Catered Meals
We bring in breakfast, lunch, and dinner and have endless supply of snacks and treats.
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Matching 401(K)
You’ll have the option to contribute to a matching 401(k).
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Full Health + Dental
We offer comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans — at no cost to you!
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Paid Parental Leave
100% pay for the first 6 weeks of leave for the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child.
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Visa Sponsorship
Looking to move to the U.S.? We’ll sponsor your visa to help you get settled.
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PTO + Holiday Week
In addition to our generous PTO policy, we always take a full week off in December.
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Professional Development
We love to send employees to conferences like WWDC, Droidcon, RubyConf, and RailsConf.
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Gym Membership
Fully paid gym membership to the fantastic new facility in our San Francisco headquarters.
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Wellness Benefit
$50 per month in wellness allowance for activities including yoga, fitness classes, exercise, or pilates.
Multi-Faceted Codebase
Work with a variety of languages and libraries.
We continuously deploy code to a wide range of devices and servers. Here are a few of the languages and libraries we use to build Scribd.
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Ruby
We deploy some of internet's most popular Rails applications multiple times a day.
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Python
From data science to web services, Python has is used across the stack for Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable.
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Rust
Our high performance data services and infrastructure has been built in Rust since 2020!
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Terraform
Our cloud infrastructure is automatically provisioned with Terraform.
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Golang
We build fast services and internal tools with Go.
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Swift
The best reading experience on iOS is primarily powered by Swift.
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Kotlin
The best reading experience on Android is powered by more and more Kotlin.
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React
We're building newer and faster user experiences for the web with React.
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Spark
Data science, batch and stream processing, and machine learning are powered by Apache Spark.
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AWS
AWS provides the foundation for every team at Scribd!
Our Structure
We divide and conquer in focused teams.
Project Management
The Project Management team’s mission is to keep the "trains" on-time across the company.
Payments
The Payments team is dedicated to growing revenue with sophisticated, reliable and secure international payments.
Search
The Search team is dedicated to answering a user's specific need or question about what to read next.
Recommendations
The Recommendations team’s mission is to inspire users to read more and discover new content and topics.
ML Data Engineering
The ML Data Engineering (MLDE) team’s mission is to build and maintain the pipeline of all content metadata and cost management with high accuracy, quality, and performance. The team provides to other teams a base layer of knowledge about titles in our library by analyzing content and user behavior and building predictive models.
Applied Research
The Applied Research team drives decisions by creating insights into the product and improve the user experience with machine learning.
Infrastructure Engineering
The Platform team’s mission is to build robust, foundational software to increase operational excellence and speed up product development. The team is focussed on implementing and supporting software infrastructure that the other teams rely on. It thinks strategically to enable the engineering org to operate efficiently and reliably at an increasing scale.
Developer Platform
The Developer Platform team is dedicated to improving the quality and productivity of engineering at Scribd. The team provides engineers with excellent tooling and automation to make building, releasing, and running systems a great experience and empower engineers to own their production systems.
Core Infrastructure
The Infrastructure team's mission is to provide secure and reliable cloud infrastructure shared between all engineering efforts with a focus on efficient automation and self-service. Our vision is an integrated set of standardized solutions that empower service ownership by facilitating and promoting DevOps practices within Scribd.
Security Engineering
The Security Engineering team builds security-critical infrastructure, handles lead incident response, and partners with the wider Engineering organization to promote a security culture at Scribd.
Mobile
The Mobile team's mission is to deliver a performant, stable and feature-rich Android and iOS application.
Quality Engineering
The Mobile QA team strives for a defect-free Scribd mobile application known for its reliability.