Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails/Python) - Content Foundations

About the Team & Role

The Content Foundations team builds the systems that power how content enters, evolves, and is delivered across the company. This includes ingestion, metadata extraction, early quality controls, and the core artifacts that power search, recommendations, AI/ML systems, and the reading and listening experience.

Why this role is interesting

• Content quality and early‑stage validation
• Spam detection at upload time
• OCR and content extraction for ML/LLM use cases
• Evolving content formats to support downstream AI workflows
• Security hardening in partnership with Content and Infra‑Security
• Architectural improvements to how content and metadata flow across systems, including improving data observability for complex, asynchronous pipelines

What You’ll Do

• Own and drive technical initiatives: Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of core conte...