Senior Manager of Developer Tooling, Scribd

• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing, full-stack or platform teams
• 5+ years of senior-level (or above) software engineering experience
• Leadership experience driving innovative initiatives with measurable impact
• Track record of building and supporting mission-critical developer tools
• Deep technical understanding of software development workflows and bottlenecks
• Proven ability to foster engineering excellence and best practices
• Ability to balance innovation with practical solutions that drive immediate value
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, Golang, JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems
• Working knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tools
• Extensive background with observability & development lifecycle tools
• Familiarity with application networking and service frameworks
• Vendor relationship and budget management

Desirable

• The Developer Tooling team is oriented around empowering & supporting engineers throughout the software development lifecycle. The team identifies opportunities to drive impactful improvements across the entire development lifecycle—from a developer's initial approach to a problem through the iterative development process, release workflows, and production observability
• The Developer Tooling team ensures engineers at Scribd can build, deploy, and operate systems efficiently by providing robust tools and frameworks
• The Developer Tooling team builds & provides development foundations that teams can leverage to make building & owning their systems and distributed services a great experience
• 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
• The Senior Engineering Manager for Developer Tooling will lead a 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
• Spearheading our code AI strategy - integrating and customizing AI-powered coding agents while driving meaningful adoption across engineering teams
• Scaling developer productivity improvements by strategically implementing AI solutions throughout the development lifecycle with measurable outcomes
• Collaborating closely with engineering teams & leaders across Scribd to understand and meet their team's needs
• Building and scaling development foundations that power our engineering organization
• This is a transformative moment for developer productivity. As AI coding tools rapidly evolve, and transform how engineers write and review code, you'll be at the forefront; having the unique opportunity to define how an entire engineering organization leverages these technologies
• You'll be empowered to experiment, measure, and implement AI solutions that will fundamentally change how our teams build software. If you're excited about the intersection of developer experience and artificial intelligence, there's never been a more impactful time to lead in this space