Principal Engineer ( AI + Dev Tooling)

Role overview

Team and company

Workplace

• Scribd Flex lets employees choose a workstyle and location; occasional in-person attendance is required regardless of location.
• Employees must have a primary residence in or near an eligible city; Canadian locations listed are Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture, patterns, and guardrails for engineers and coding agents across code, CI/CD, and infrastructure.
• Set agentic engineering direction and roadmap, including investment decisions.
• Set standards and direction for internal tools, libraries, and platforms.
• Turn ambiguous cross-organizational problems into initiatives and own them from framing through delivery.
• Mentor staff and senior engineers, coach teams on agent workflows, and roll out capabilities across engineering.

Requirements

• At least 10 years in software engineering, including experience at Staff or Principal level.
• Hands-on experience applying AI to software problems and shipping, measuring, or materially advancing agentic developer tooling in production.
• Depth in agent runtimes and harnesses, tool use, context management, and evaluations of agentic systems.
• Organization-wide technical impact, including setting direction, mentoring senior and staff engineers, and communicating complex technical ideas.
• Significant experience in developer experience, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
• Comfort with ambiguity, broad ownership, and balancing stability with speed.

Compensation

• The posting lists a Canada salary range of CAD 214,000 to CAD 283,500, without specifying pay cadence.
• The position is eligible for equity ownership and benefits; ranges vary by geographic market and role level.

Benefits

• Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage; mental health and disability support; paid time off; parental leave; retirement matching; equity; learning programs; and home office and wellness stipends.
• Employees receive access to Scribd products and enterprise AI tools.