Lead AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Scale AI, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. seeks an Infrastructure Engineering Manager to bridge AI research and production, leading a team delivering scalable, secure enterprise solutions. You’ll work on interactive AI applications, enterprise SaaS products, and platform capabilities that redefine how businesses leverage AI.

You will guide the deployment lifecycle, ensure reliability, and drive platform improvements while mentoring engineers and aligning with product and security leadership.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of relevant experience and 2+ years managing infrastructure or platform teams.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI.
• Proven experience with Kubernetes deployments on on-prem infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Github Actions), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience managing production environments with high availability, reliability, and scalability requirements.
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident response best practices.
• Experience working with modern developer platforms and internal tooling to improve engineering velocity.
• Solid foundation and real-world experience in network engineering.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the infrastructure roadmap aligned with business and engineering priorities.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure systems.
• Set and maintain SLAs/SLOs for platform uptime, performance, and developer experience.
• Manage the engineering team and drive technical delivery.
• Design, build, and optimize backend services for AI-driven applications, focusing on AI agents, evaluation tooling, and automation.
• Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team.
• Inspire and mentor engineers.
• Work closely with product, security, and engineering leadership to align on goals and priorities.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Production readiness

Monitoring & incident response

Developer platforms

Network engineering

Tools

CircleCI

Github Actions

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. seeks an Infrastructure Engineering Manager to bridge AI research and production, leading a team delivering scalable, secure enterprise solutions. You’ll work on interactive AI applications, enterprise SaaS products, and platform capabilities that redefine how businesses leverage AI.

You will guide the deployment lifecycle, ensure reliability, and drive platform improvements while mentoring engineers and aligning with product and security leadership.