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Senior Software Engineer, Orchestration Platform

Scale AI· Horizontals EPD
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York, NY)$216k - $270kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating Scale’s core orchestration platform to run durable, reliable, and scalable workflows across products and teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and operation of Scale’s core orchestration platform.
  • Build durable workflow infrastructure using technologies such as Temporal, Cadence, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems.
  • Define platform primitives and APIs for scheduling, retries, state management, task execution, observability, and workflow lifecycle management.
  • Partner with product, infrastructure, data, and application teams to understand workflow needs and turn them into reusable platform capabilities.
  • Improve the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience of services that run critical company workflows.
  • Establish technical standards and best practices for distributed workflow development, deployment, testing, and incident response.
  • Drive cross-functional technical decisions and communicate platform direction clearly to engineers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, with a focus on backend, infrastructure, and distributed systems.
  • Experience building and operating production systems with strong requirements for reliability, availability, and scale.
  • Deep familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, Cadence, AWS Step Functions, Kubernetes, or similar systems.
  • Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized production environments, and familiarity with Terraform, Docker.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed-systems concepts, including asynchronous execution, retries, idempotency, fault tolerance, state management, and observability.
  • A track record of leading technically complex projects from design through rollout and ongoing operation.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with platform consumers and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systemsWorkflow orchestrationKubernetes

Benefits

  • comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • a learning and development stipend
  • generous PTO
  • commuter stipend (potential)
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI

Scale accelerates the development of AI within organizations of any size to deliver critical business insights and operational efficiency. Its data-centric infrastructure platform leverages RLHF (Reinforced Learning with Human Feedback) to help organizations build the strongest AI models that supercharge their business, with customers across industries including Meta, Microsoft, U.S. Army, DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit, Open AI, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Brex, Instacart and Flexport.

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