Infrastructure Engineer II

Summary

Join Scribd's Core Infrastructure team as an Infrastructure Engineer and contribute to the foundation of our platform used by 250+ million people monthly. You will be instrumental in managing our AWS Cloud environment, transitioning to a service-oriented architecture, and educating developers on operational responsibilities. This role requires strong infrastructure engineering experience, coding skills (Python, Ruby, Go, Bash), and familiarity with AWS services like Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Scribd offers a flexible work environment (Scribd Flex) with occasional in-person attendance, along with a competitive compensation package including benefits like healthcare, parental leave, 401k matching, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 3+ years of production infrastructure engineering and site reliability experience
• Ability to read and write code in one or more languages including Python, Ruby, Go, and/or Bash code
• Experience with Docker, AWSECS, and/or Kubernetes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Software development background
• Familiarity with git and common software development practices
• Ability to write tests
• Capable of reading and understanding the code in order to participate in the code review process
• Ability to lead deep technical design discussions within your team, and across partner teams
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (ex .Terraform) and thoughts about their respective strengths and weaknesses
• Ability to participate in technical design discussions within your team, and across partner teams

Responsibilities

• Be part of the team managing the existing AWS Cloud Environment while helping service owners adjust to a new AWS-centric model
• Help in the shift from a traditional operations organization into a services organization that provides key components to our backend technology stack such as container orchestration infrastructure, logging services, monitoring and alerting patterns, caching layers, and relational/non-relational clustered data storage
• Educate developers and help delegate traditional operational responsibilities to teams that are already taking an increased level of ownership of their production environment
• Share your experience and good judgment to help these teams scale their services operationally for years to come
• Help build and operate a modern service-oriented AWS infrastructure and maintain uptime for a product used by 250+ million people every month
• Influence the future and direction of our infrastructure to improve the performance and observability into the health of our services

Preferred Qualifications

• An infrastructure engineering passion and desire to write automation to reduce toil and scale non-linearly
• History of building predictable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• A strong understanding of AWS platform services and their strengths/weaknesses
• Experience working to improve 24/7 on-call rotations, reducing alert fatigue, and improving automation
• An appetite to learn and grow professionally
• Mentoring skills: experience with training and educating teammates or colleagues on contemporary operational best practices

Benefits

• Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Short-term/long-term disability plans
• 401k/RSP matching
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Learning & Development programs
• Quarterly stipend for Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort
• Mental Health support & resources
• Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family
• Referral Bonuses
• Book Benefit
• Sabbaticals
• Company wide events
• Team engagement budgets
• Vacation & Personal Days
• Paid Holidays (+ winter break)
• Flexible Sick Time
• Volunteer Day
• Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs
• Scribd Flex (flexible work benefit)