Platform Engineer - AI Foundations & Scalable Infra

Scale AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to design foundational data platforms and scalable cloud infrastructure. You will work across teams to define requirements, build robust services, and drive improvements in development tooling.

The role focuses on back-end systems and large-scale distributed architectures in a fast-paced AI environment. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of post-graduate engineering experience, strong cloud and CI/CD expertise, and a passion for building reliable,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation, with specialties in back-end systems.
• Excellent knowledge of scalable distributed systems on public cloud platforms.
• Experience with AI-related data platforms and retrieval systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement foundational platforms used across Scale.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver features.
• Lead in AI domain experimentation and tooling improvements.
• Present architectural concepts to engineers and stakeholders.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

PostgreSQL

CI/CD tooling

Temporal

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Temporal

PostgreSQL

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to design foundational data platforms and scalable cloud infrastructure. You will work across teams to define requirements, build robust services, and drive improvements in development tooling.

The role focuses on back-end systems and large-scale distributed architectures in a fast-paced AI environment. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of post-graduate engineering experience, strong cloud and CI/CD expertise, and a passion for building reliable,