Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Apps Platform

Location: London, UK

Company

Scale AI develops reliable AI systems, high-quality data, and full-stack technologies that help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications.

What you will do

• Expand the platform’s deployment footprint across on-premises environments, major cloud providers, and other infrastructure environments.
• Ensure fast, secure, and reproducible deployments across supported cloud service providers and on-premises systems.
• Expand platform observability so forward-deployed infrastructure teams can operate customer deployments efficiently.
• Partner with internal platform-deployment teams, debug issues, and build tooling for their use cases.
• Respond urgently to incidents and production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive fixes.
• Develop the deployment and observability roadmap, lead architecture reviews, and own projects from design through deployment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and deploying enterprise and public sector solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and on-premises environments.
• Deep expertise in infrastructure design, networking engineering, VPNs, load balancers, and firewalls.
• Deep proficiency with infrastructure as code, containerisation, and orchestration using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker.
• Comprehensive understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software delivery principles using GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
• Experience with GitOps-style deployments and maintaining consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Strong debugging skills and the ability to navigate performance and security trade-offs in production systems.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to switch between reactive incident work and proactive product development.

Nice to have

• Experience as a founder or early engineer at an infrastructure-focused startup, owning a product end-to-end.
• Experience running secure workloads in multi-tenant or untrusted environments such as FaaS, CI sandboxes, or remote notebooks.
• Open-source contributions to systems or developer-tools projects.
• History of on-call or incident response for production systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive and equal opportunity workplace.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the application and recruiting process.
• Personal data is handled according to internal privacy and data-protection policies.

Hiring process

• Candidates may be reconsidered for the same role after a 90-day waiting period.