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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Everand Core - **Company:** Scribd Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $171,000.0 - $267,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Databases, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Software Design Documents, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Ruby, Secure Coding, Technical Debt, Backend, Low Latency, Legacy Systems - **Published:** August 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pfdxagl1pe ## About the Role * You bring significant experience in backend engineering, with a strong track record building and scaling distributed systems. * You write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or Python. * You have a keen eye for reliability and observability, and care about defining SLOs, implementing metrics and alerts, and debugging distributed systems. * You have a proven track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale migrations or modernization efforts. * You thrive in cross-functional collaboration, holding your own with senior PM, design, and ML partners, and caring more about the system landing well than about being right. * You enjoy mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and contributing to cross-team initiatives, including architecture review groups and design discussions that shape Scribd's engineering culture. * You care deeply about the users; understanding what makes Everand impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into the systems you build. It's a plus if you also have - * Strong coding ability in Ruby. * Experience improving reliability, latency, or throughput in large-scale distributed systems. * Experience working alongside ML teams on recommendation or feed systems. * Familiarity with experimentation or feature-flagging platforms. ## Description * Your main focus will be to 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, pairing, 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 that let teams move fast, simplify complexity, and deliver with confidence. * 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 and a single source of truth across platforms, using data, metrics, and telemetry to uncover trends, resolve anomalies, and guide the team with clarity and foresight. * Champion a user-first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the reading and listening experience. ## Related Videos - [Coffee with Developers: David Heinemeier Hansson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/875-coffee-with-developers-david-heinemeier-hansson) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Kubernetes and Microservices with Multi-Model Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/382-kubernetes-and-microservices-with-multi-model-databases) - [Why Your Best Mediors Never Become Seniors (And How to Fix It)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2108-why-your-best-mediors-never-become-seniors-and-how-to-fix-it) - [Meet Your New BFF: Backend to Frontend without the Duct Tape](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/682-meet-your-new-bff-backend-to-frontend-without-the-duct-tape) - [Coroutine explained yet again 60 years later](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/690-coroutine-explained-yet-again-60-years-later) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)