Our four products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise. and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer. We believe the best work happens when individual flexibility is balanced with meaningful community connection. Scribd Flex empowers employees to choose the workstyle and location that support their best performance, while committing to intentional in-person moments that strengthen collaboration and culture. Traditionally defined as the intersection of passion and perseverance toward long-term goals, GRIT reflects the mindset we expect from every employee. For us, it also serves as a practical framework for how we work: setting and achieving Goals, delivering Results within your role, contributing Innovative ideas and solutions, and strengthening the broader Team through collaboration and attitude. The Developer Tooling team empowers Scribd engineers across the entire software development lifecycle. We build and evolve the tools, frameworks, and platforms that power engineering workflows — from modernizing infrastructure and optimizing build and deployment processes to pioneering agentic engineering capabilities that let AI agents execute alongside our developers. This is a Principal Engineer role, and it comes with a clear mandate: define how Scribd builds software as AI changes the work. You’ll own the technical vision for agentic engineering at Scribd: how hundreds of engineers work alongside coding agents to write, review, and ship code across our stack. You’ll work directly with the CTO and engineering leadership to make agentic engineering a lasting advantage for the company, and the standards you set will shape how every team works.



You’ve used coding agents seriously enough to have robust opinions about where they work, where they struggle, and what that means for how codebases and workflows need to change to get the most out of them. Decide the architecture, patterns, and guardrails that let engineers and coding agents work together across our codebase, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure, and set the direction for where it goes next. Set the direction for Scribd's internal tools, libraries, and platforms, setting standards that engineers across the company rely on. Partner with engineering leaders to turn ambiguous, cross-org problems into initiatives, and own them from framing through delivery. Mentor staff and senior engineers, coach teams to get more out of agents in their day-to-day workflows, and roll out new capabilities throughout engineering. 10+ years in software engineering, including time operating at the Staff or Principal level Hands‑on experience applying AI to real software problems. You’ve shipped, measured, or meaningfully moved agentic developer tooling in production, and you keep up as the field moves. Depth in the mechanics of agentic systems: agent runtimes and harnesses, tool use and context management, and the evals that tell you whether a change actually helped A track record of organization‑wide technical impact: setting direction that outlasts any single project,



mentoring senior and staff engineers, and making complex technical ideas clear to both leadership and the engineers you work with Significant time in developer experience, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between 214,000 CAD to 283,500 CAD. relevant education or training; In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package. 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 Wellness and home office stipends Enterprise access to leading AI tools If you apply for a job with Scribd, Inc. or otherwise engage with us in connection with employment (including as an employee, contractor, or other personnel), the personal information we process in that context is subject to our Employee and Applicant Privacy Policy, which is available Scribd, Inc. is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply, and believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation f

📌 Principal Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Scribd
📍 Canada