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Senior Manager, Infrastructure Engineering (Developer Tooling)

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Job Description

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At Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”), our mission is to spark human curiosity. Join our team as we create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas and information, and empower collective expertise through our three products: Everand, Scribd, and Slideshare. 

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 flexible work benefit - Scribd Flex - enables employees, in partnership with their manager, to choose the daily work-style that best suits their individual needs. As an organization, we prioritize collaboration and intentional in-person moments to build culture and connection. For this reason, occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd employees, regardless of their location.

About The Team
The Developer Tooling team is oriented around empowering & supporting engineers throughout the software development lifecycle. From when a developer sits down to start on a problem, through development & iteration and through to release & production observability - the team looks for opportunities where we can drive improvements & impact. The team provides tools & processes that aim to achieve the best developer experience & productivity for developers at Scribd.

The Developer Tooling team builds & provides development foundations that teams can leverage to make building & owning their systems and distributed services a great experience. This includes:
• Building and maintaining our innovative remote development environment
• Providing service foundation frameworks that enable rapid service development & operations
• Managing critical infrastructure for networking and service discovery
• Improving the development foundations of our Monolith

The team you'll be leading is remote-first; spread across time zones in North America & western Europe. The expectation for this role is to have a minimum of 2 overlapping working hours daily to be able to meet with and support the team. They work collaboratively with other teams to support and enhance the overall engineering experience at Scribd.

About The Role
The Senior Engineering Manager for Developer Tooling will lead a globally dispersed team of engineers focused on improving the development experience and productivity of engineering at Scribd. In this role, you will lead efforts supporting a broad set of engineers working across multiple platforms & technologies and all of our three product brands. In this role, you will have an opportunity to have a significant impact on all of Scribd Engineering (150+ developers).

You'll lead a team that shapes the future of development experience at Scribd by:
• Driving technical strategy that balances immediate needs with long-term excellence
• Identifying & addressing tooling gaps for development teams at Scribd
• Leading innovation in developer tooling, including AI-powered advancements
• Collaborating closely with engineering leaders across Scribd
• Building and scaling development foundations that power our engineering organization

Key Attributes
• Ruby on Rails, Golang, JavaScript/TypeScript
• AWS Cloud Infrastructure (ECS, EKS)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Tooling (Datadog, Sentry, Github)
• Application Networking (CDNs, Fastly, App Mesh, etc.)
• Vendor relationship and budget management

Experience We Value
• Ruby on Rails, Golang, JavaScript/TypeScript
• AWS Cloud Infrastructure (ECS, EKS)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)Tooling (Datadog, Sentry, Github)
• Application Networking (CDNs, Fastly, App Mesh, etc.)
• Vendor relationship and budget management

What Sets You Apart
• Vision & passion for modern developer experiences
• Experience scaling developer productivity initiatives
• Track record of successful cross-team collaboration
• Comfort & ability to navigate and work with diverse technical ecosystems
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