Software Engineer - Backend (python)

Scribd, Inc.

San Francisco, United States
San francisco: $126,000 - $196,000; other us: $103...
Event-driven distributed systems
Scalable systems in python
Aws services (lambda, ecs, sqs)
We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer

Job Summary

  • We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer.
  • Our ML Data Engineering team powers metadata extraction, enrichment, and content understanding across all Scribd brands, processing hundreds of millions of documents and billions of images.
  • This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge generative AI and metadata enrichment problems at a truly global scale.

Matching Summary

We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer.

Salary

San Francisco: $126,000 - $196,000; Other US: $103,500 - $186,500; Canada: $131,500 CAD - $174,500 CAD

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • event-driven distributed systems
  • scalable systems in Python
  • AWS services (Lambda, ECS, SQS)
  • large-scale data and service pipelines
  • backend services integrating ML models

Nice-to-have

  • generative AI problems
  • LLM-based components
  • Scala experience is a plus
  • infrastructure-as-code tools
  • data processing frameworks
  • workflow orchestration tools

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of strong proficiency in Python
  • Proven experience designing and building scalable systems
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience

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