Senior Data Platform Engineer for AI‑Scale Systems

scaleai; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI is hiring a Platform Engineer in London to lead the design and development of core data storage, streaming, caching, and indexing platforms. You will collaborate across teams to deliver new features and improvements on scalable data systems.

The role requires deep backend expertise in distributed data architectures, cloud platforms, and containerization with Kubernetes. Strong mentoring, communication, and leadership skills are essential for guiding projects and teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time engineering experience with backend focus on data storage, streaming, and warehousing.
• Experience with MongoDB/Postgres, Kinesis/Flink/Spark, ElasticSearch/Redis, and Trino/Presto/Snowflake.
• Mentored and led teams on successful projects; strong communication with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive design, implementation, and reliability of data platforms and systems, working with stakeholders to refine requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve programming practices and tooling.
• Present technical information to teams and stakeholders, guiding development processes and technologies.

Skills

5+ years engineering

Mentoring & leadership

Communication & collaboration

Distributed systems understanding

Tools

MongoDB

Postgres

Kinesis

Flink

Spark

ElasticSearch

Redis

Trino

Presto

Snowflake

Kubernetes

CircleCI

Job description

Scale AI is hiring a Platform Engineer in London to lead the design and development of core data storage, streaming, caching, and indexing platforms. You will collaborate across teams to deliver new features and improvements on scalable data systems.

The role requires deep backend expertise in distributed data architectures, cloud platforms, and containerization with Kubernetes. Strong mentoring, communication, and leadership skills are essential for guiding projects and teams.