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Senior Manager, Infrastructure Engineering (Developer Tooling)
- Scribd
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Job Description
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
