Senior Engineering Manager, Backend (Content Foundations)
Core
Lead the engineering team building a real-time, AI-native ingestion platform for hundreds of millions of documents and presentations, serving as the foundation for Scribd's consumer brands and downstream AI teams.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, Backend (Content Foundations)
Builds
A high-scale, real-time document ingestion system powering UGC brands (Scribd, Slideshare) and serving as a platform for trust & safety, content understanding, and AI platform teams.
Domain
Document processing, large-scale data infrastructure, applied AI, and UGC platforms.
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
High-throughput distributed systems, data pipelines, streaming/event-driven architectures, applied AI/ML integration, platform-product mindset, security-first system design, operational excellence.
Preferred skills
Document processing at scale (PDF, vision-language parsing), RAG/retrieval infrastructure, UGC/marketplace platforms, founding-manager experience.
Technologies
LLMs, vision-language models, vector search, embedding pipelines, streaming systems.
Responsibilities
Own the vision and strategy for real-time AI-native content ingestion; build state-of-the-art AI into the platform for document understanding and enrichment; turn platform capability into product impact for discoverability and AI grounding; lead, grow, and inspire a founding team of backend and AI data engineers; run the team as a product defining roadmap and commitments; champion security principles for untrusted content at massive scale.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities