About the Role
About The Team And Role
Core Infrastructure builds and operates the foundations of Scribd, Inc.: the paved roads of cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and observability that let every product team move fast with confidence. Over the past two years, our charter has grown, and today we own the Content Library, the unified storage and governance platform for all content across Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable.
The Content Library is one of the more interesting storage problems you'll find anywhere. Nearly twenty years of accumulated content, hundreds of billions of objects in S3, served to hundreds of millions of people every month. It provides transactional storage, dataset transforms with full lineage tracking, low-latency online reads, and the governance layer (access control, trust, deletion propagation) for our most valuable asset: the content that powers our products and our inference-driven features.
The core of the platform is written in Rust and built on the excellent Rust data ecosystem (Apache Arrow, Parquet, and DataFusion), with a Python "userland" that teams across the company contribute to directly.
About You
You're a systems engineer who loves owning software end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment, operations, and the inevitable "why is this slow?" investigations. You're pragmatic about technology choices; you keep things simple, and you write things down. Design docs, runbooks, and thoughtful code reviews are how you scale yourself.
You enjoy being the engineer other teams come to, whether that's reviewing their contributions, unblocking an integration, or turning an ambiguous ask into well-scoped work. You've made agentic AI tools part of your daily engineering practice, and you know they accelerate great engineers rather than replace engineering judgment. Humans stay in the loop on quality, security, and ownership.
What You Will Do
Design, build, and operate the Content Library's core Rust services (transactional storage, dataset transforms, etc.).
Requirements
Rust programming
Proficiency in Rust is essential for building core services.
Systems engineering
Experience in owning software end-to-end, from design to operations.
Cloud infrastructure
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and networking is required.
Database management
Knowledge of database systems and governance is necessary.
Nice to Have
Experience with Python for userland contributions is a plus.
Familiarity with AI tools in engineering practices is beneficial.
Benefits
Flexible workstyle
Employees can choose their workstyle and location for optimal performance.
Community connection
Intentional in-person moments to strengthen collaboration and culture.