Infrastructure Software Engineer, Apps Platform

Location: London, UK

Company

Scale AI develops reliable AI systems, high-quality data, and full-stack technologies for AI applications used by enterprises and governments.

What you will do

• Expand platform deployments across on-premises environments and major cloud service providers.
• Ensure fast, secure, and reproducible deployments across supported cloud and on-premises environments.
• Expand platform observability so infrastructure teams can operate customer deployments efficiently.
• Partner with internal platform users to understand deployment needs, debug issues, and build supporting tools.
• Respond to incidents, 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

• 5+ 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 ensuring 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 infrastructure-focused startup engineer with end-to-end product ownership.
• 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.
• Experience with 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 under internal privacy and data-protection policies.

Hiring process

• Candidates must wait 90 days before being reconsidered for the same role.