Staff Software Engineer – Backend

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🕒 July 27

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $171k - $267k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Slideshare

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51 - 200 employees

📱 Media

📚 Education

💰 $2.7M Series A - SlideShare on 2008-05

Media • Education

Slideshare is a platform hosting a vast collection of professional presentations—about 25 million—uploaded by subject-matter experts around the globe. It operates as a knowledge- and content-sharing service within Scribd, Inc. ’s family of products, enabling discovery and distribution of slide decks and professional presentations for learning, marketing, and professional development.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction for the Everand backend: writing and socializing design documents, driving architecture reviews, and turning ambiguous product intent into concrete backend design • Own backend reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queues, cost, and observability • Raise the ceiling for the team through PR review, mentorship, and by setting a high bar on design, testing, and ops • Be the Everand backend voice in cross-team planning, and the glue in cross-functional execution • Foster a culture of technical excellence while driving scalable, resilient, and observable systems • Modernize legacy systems and eliminate technical debt to improve velocity and scalability • Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and Web, Mobile, and ML Engineers to deliver backend systems that support experimentation

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in backend engineering, with a strong track record building and scaling distributed systems • Ability to write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or Python • Keen eye for reliability and observability, defining SLOs, implementing metrics and alerts, and debugging distributed systems • Proven track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale migrations or modernization efforts • Ability to thrive in cross-functional collaboration, holding own with senior PM, design, and ML partners • Enjoy mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and contributing to cross-team initiatives

🏖️ 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