Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Company

Scale AI develops reliable AI systems, high-quality data, and full-stack technologies for enterprises, governments, and frontier AI labs.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of the core orchestration platform.
• Build durable workflow infrastructure with Temporal, Cadence, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems.
• Define APIs and platform primitives for scheduling, retries, state management, task execution, observability, and workflow lifecycle management.
• Partner with product, infrastructure, data, and application teams to turn workflow needs into reusable platform capabilities.
• Improve reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience for services running critical company workflows.
• Establish engineering standards for distributed workflow development, deployment, testing, and incident response.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience focused on backend, infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Experience building and operating production systems with strong reliability, availability, and scale requirements.
• Deep familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, Cadence, AWS Step Functions, Kubernetes, or similar systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized production environments, plus familiarity with Terraform and Docker.
• Strong knowledge of asynchronous execution, retries, idempotency, fault tolerance, state management, and observability.
• Experience leading technically complex projects from design through rollout and ongoing operation, with strong communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Snowflake, Firebolt, Dagster, or dbt.
• Experience with authentication and authorization systems such as Zanzibar or Authz.
• Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups.
• Interest in working with AI technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Base salary range of $216,000–$270,000 USD, with eligible roles potentially including equity.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement benefits, learning and development stipend, and generous paid time off.
• Some eligible roles may include a commuter stipend.
• Inclusive equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodations available during the application and recruiting process.

Hiring process

• Compensation is determined during the interview process based on location, skills, experience, qualifications, and interview performance.
• Candidates must wait 90 days before being reconsidered for the same role.