Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, documents, slide decks, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. We have 2M+ paying subscribers. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. Last year we launched www.everand.com/. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC '06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites, serving +200M unique visitors monthly. Learn more about our tech at [https://tech.scribd.com](https://tech.scribd.com/).
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance.
A key role I'm personally hiring at the moment:
Senior Engineering Manager, Payments & Billing
This is a strategic and deeply technical role: you’d own the architecture and execution of our global payments and billing platform, serving over 2 million subscribers across 40+ countries. We’re looking for a leader who thrives in complex systems and stays deeply technical – someone who partners closely with their team and contributes meaningfully to technical decisions.
This team owns our full monetization platform, including subscription lifecycle management, payment orchestration, fraud prevention, compliance, and observability. It’s a high-leverage role with direct impact on revenue, customer experience, and global scale.
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (a very long time ago :). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. We have 2M+ paying subscribers. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. Last year we launched www.everand.com/. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC '06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites. Learn more about our tech at [https://tech.scribd.com](https://tech.scribd.com/).
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance.
A couple key roles I'm hiring in my org:
* Senior Manager, Developer Tooling: We are hiring a leader for one of our Developer Platform teams. Looking for someone who is enthusiastic about building great developer experiences and exploring new code AI opportunities for 150+ developers. Come join us to figure out how to make AI agents successful at accelerating Scribd’s engineering teams! Job description: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/79a3247c-aa3b-46b2-aaa8-3aae090...
* Director, Data Platform: I'm looking for a senior leader with a strong technical foundation and a passion for building world-class data systems. This is the opportunity to shape and scale our data engineering function to support Scribd’s next stage of growth. This includes owning the data platform and tooling while building pipelines and data products to enable analytics, experimentation, data science, and more. Job description: (https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/c2714835-cbf0-456f-bec7-e2fe7c1...
* Data Architect/Principal Data Engineer: We are starting a major initiative to improve our data architecture and building core data models that enable deep insights to inform every aspect of our business, from product development, experimentation, to understanding our subscriber engagement and tracking key performance indicators. Job description: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/4871b070-4d75-41f3-bb65-4339320...
* Senior Security Engineer: You will be integral to our security strategy. You’ll work with a variety of security tools to protect our systems and data and design automation and tooling to streamline security operations. This role is a fit for someone with a passion for security and a solid background in software engineering. Job should be posted online tomorrow Tuesday!
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (a very long time ago :). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. We have 2M+ paying subscribers. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. Last year we launched www.everand.com/. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC '06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites. Learn more about our tech at https://tech.scribd.com.
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance.
A couple key roles I'm hiring in my org:
* Director, Data Platform: I'm looking for a senior leader with a strong technical foundation and a passion for building world-class data systems. This is the opportunity to shape and scale our data engineering function to support Scribd’s next stage of growth. This includes owning the data platform and tooling while building pipelines and data products to enable analytics, experimentation, data science, and more. Job description: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/c2714835-cbf0-456f-bec7-e2fe7c1...
* Data Architect/Principal Data Engineer: We are starting a major initiative to improve our data architecture and building core data models that enable deep insights to inform every aspect of our business, from product development, experimentation, to understanding our subscriber engagement and tracking key performance indicators. Job description: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/4871b070-4d75-41f3-bb65-4339320...
* Senior Manager, Developer Tooling: We are hiring a leader for one of our Developer Platform teams. Looking for someone who is enthusiastic about building great developer experiences and exploring new code AI opportunities for 150+ developers. Job description: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/79a3247c-aa3b-46b2-aaa8-3aae090...
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (a very long time ago :). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).
Scribd | Software Engineers | San Francisco, Toronto, Amsterdam, UK, Mexico | ONSITE or REMOTE | VISA
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. We have 1.8M+ paying subscribers. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC '06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance. To learn more, please check out https://tech.scribd.com
* The Core Infrastructure team is looking for experienced Infrastructure Engineers. This team owns the design, operation, and maintenance of our AWS Cloud infrastructure. We work with large-scale distributed systems, including multi-tier architectures, application security, networking, and storage systems. As an infrastructure engineer, you will be part of implementing solutions to support the continued growth of Scribd.
If you have experience building and operating SQL, NoSQL, and K/V datastores (MySQL, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, etc) your experience and good judgement will be crucial to help innovate and operate a modern service-oriented AWS infrastructure while maintaining uptime for a product used by 250+ million people every month.
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (back in 2012!). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).
Scribd | Software Engineers | San Francisco, Toronto, Amsterdam, UK, Mexico | ONSITE or REMOTE | VISA
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers to their audience. We have 1.9M+ paying subscribers. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance. To learn more, please check out https://tech.scribd.com
* Full-stack Engineer - Accounts and Plans: The team works across the stack, both on the JS frontend and Rails backend. We deliver features that improve user's relationship to their Scribd account, including new subscription options, account management, authentication, and account protection. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/52b96393-690a-49f9-9c57-26a6506...
* Software Engineer 1 - ML Platform: you will get an opportunity to work on a wide array of technologies and play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, testing, and deploying our ML platform to empower Data Science at Scribd. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/50653b22-023a-444b-8082-c0699a2...
* Data Engineer 1 - You will help design, support and implement robust, scalable data pipelines, backend services and solutions capable of processing ever growing data sets while keeping latency low and quality high. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/741f38d4-b5d7-46c0-a967-ed9d0e0...
* Infrastructure Engineer: Your experience will influence the direction of our infrastructure to improve observability and automation of our services. We are looking for junior, senior, and staff level engineers. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/?department=Engineering&team=Co...
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (back in 2012!). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).
Scribd | Software Engineers | San Francisco, Toronto, Amsterdam, UK, Mexico | ONSITE or REMOTE | VISA
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers to their audience. We have 1.8M+ paying subscribers. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance. To learn more, please check out https://tech.scribd.com
* Senior iOS Engineer: We’re a small team working on an app with 1.4mil active monthly users. You’ll work on everything from UI to API communication to data persistence. We work together with teams across the company, including design, backend, and product, to make a native iOS app that we are proud of, and that our users love and use every day. We believe in continuously improving our skills and codebase, work/life balance, and doing things right over doing them fast. We’re looking for engineers who share this view and are excited about writing quality code, trying new technologies, and playing well with others. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/34133538-4855-426d-a38b-af5dcef...
* Infrastructure Engineer: Your experience will influence the direction of our infrastructure to improve observability and automation of our services. We are looking for junior, senior, and staff level engineers. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/?department=Engineering&team=Co...
* ML Engineer: We are looking for exceptional Machine Learning Engineers to build state-of-the-art ML models leveraging transformers, auto encoders at scale - while at the same time deeply personalizing the experience for 100+ millions of our users. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/9649dc38-bf40-41e3-90e0-4f20a5a...
* Senior QA Engineer (Mobile Automation) - Join our eclectic mobile QA crew and help us take our UI Automation to the next level. The primary focus is on automating end to end user flows on iOS (XCUITest) and breaking the app before our users do :) https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/341ee22f-90a5-4ae9-a5d6-bceb589...
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (back in 2012!). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).
Scribd | Software Engineers | San Francisco, Toronto, Amsterdam, UK, Mexico | ONSITE or REMOTE | VISA
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. We have 1.8M+ paying subscribers. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance. To learn more, please check out https://tech.scribd.com
* Senior iOS Engineer: We’re a small team working on an app with 1.4mil active monthly users. You’ll work on everything from UI to API communication to data persistence. We work together with teams across the company, including design, backend, and product, to make a native iOS app that we are proud of, and that our users love and use every day. We believe in continuously improving our skills and codebase, work/life balance, and doing things right over doing them fast. We’re looking for engineers who share this view and are excited about writing quality code, trying new technologies, and playing well with others. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/34133538-4855-426d-a38b-af5dcef...
* Site Reliability Engineer (SRE): Your experience will influence the direction of our infrastructure to improve observability and automation of our services. We are looking for junior, senior, and staff level engineers. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/?department=Engineering&team=Co...
* ML Engineer: We are looking for exceptional Machine Learning Engineers to build state-of-the-art ML models leveraging transformers, auto encoders at scale - while at the same time deeply personalizing the experience for 100+ millions of our users. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/9649dc38-bf40-41e3-90e0-4f20a5a...
* SlideShare mid-level Backend Engineer. After our acquisition, we have dramatically improved the product and plan to accelerate these initiatives in 2022. You will have broad ownership of technical direction. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/38f43c4d-a60b-4d70-bd55-2fbf74d...
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (back in 2012!). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).
Scribd | Software Engineers | San Francisco, Toronto, Amsterdam, UK, Mexico | ONSITE or REMOTE | VISA
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. We have 1.8M+ paying subscribers. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance. To learn more, please check out https://tech.scribd.com
* Senior iOS Engineer: We’re a small team working on an app with 1.4mil active monthly users. You’ll work on everything from UI to API communication to data persistence. We work together with teams across the company, including design, backend, and product, to make a native iOS app that we are proud of, and that our users love and use every day. We believe in continuously improving our skills and codebase, work/life balance, and doing things right over doing them fast. We’re looking for engineers who share this view and are excited about writing quality code, trying new technologies, and playing well with others. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/34133538-4855-426d-a38b-af5dcef...
* Site Reliability Engineer (SRE): Your experience will influence the direction of our infrastructure to improve observability and automation of our services. We are looking for junior, senior, and staff level engineers. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/?department=Engineering&team=Co...
* ML Engineer: We are looking for exceptional Machine Learning Engineers to build state-of-the-art ML models leveraging transformers, auto encoders at scale - while at the same time deeply personalizing the experience for 100+ millions of our users. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/9649dc38-bf40-41e3-90e0-4f20a5a...
* SlideShare mid-level Backend Engineer. After our acquisition, we have dramatically improved the product and plan to accelerate these initiatives in 2022. You will have broad ownership of technical direction. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/38f43c4d-a60b-4d70-bd55-2fbf74d...
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (back in 2012!). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).
Scribd | Software Engineers | San Francisco, Toronto, Amsterdam, UK, Mexico | ONSITE or REMOTE | VISA
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. In 2019 we hit 1M paying subscribers and have been growing since then. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance. To learn more, please check out https://tech.scribd.com
* SlideShare mid-level Backend Engineer. After our acquisition, we have dramatically improved the product and plan to accelerate these initiatives in 2022. You will have broad ownership of technical direction. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/38f43c4d-a60b-4d70-bd55-2fbf74d...
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (back in 2012!). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).
Scribd | Software Engineers | San Francisco, Toronto, Amsterdam | ONSITE or REMOTE | VISA
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. In 2019 we hit 1M paying subscribers and have been growing since then. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance. To learn more, please check out https://tech.scribd.com
* Internal Tools: help us build tooling & automation to empower our growing engineering org, remote dev environments for our Rails monolith and services, foundational layers of our services.
https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/7f56ce21-4b4d-4aad-a391-1fc57c3...
* SlideShare mid-level Backend Engineer. After our acquisition, we have dramatically improved the product and plan to accelerate these initiatives in 2022. You will have broad ownership of technical direction. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/38f43c4d-a60b-4d70-bd55-2fbf74d...
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (back in 2012!). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, documents, slide decks, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. We have 2M+ paying subscribers. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare. Last year we launched www.everand.com/. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC '06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites, serving +200M unique visitors monthly. Learn more about our tech at [https://tech.scribd.com](https://tech.scribd.com/).
We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance.
A key role I'm personally hiring at the moment:
Senior Engineering Manager, Payments & Billing
This is a strategic and deeply technical role: you’d own the architecture and execution of our global payments and billing platform, serving over 2 million subscribers across 40+ countries. We’re looking for a leader who thrives in complex systems and stays deeply technical – someone who partners closely with their team and contributes meaningfully to technical decisions.
This team owns our full monetization platform, including subscription lifecycle management, payment orchestration, fraud prevention, compliance, and observability. It’s a high-leverage role with direct impact on revenue, customer experience, and global scale.
Job description & application: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scribd/33efc93c-c930-4cca-98cc-7277...
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (a very long time ago :). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm leading our Infrastructure org - recruiters/agencies: do not contact me).