Staff Data Platform Engineer for AI Scale

Scale AI; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Dental & vision insurance

Learning & development stipend

Employee ERG events

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Platform Engineer to lead design and development of core data storage, streaming, caching, and indexing platforms. You will drive architecture and reliability of foundational data systems, working with stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver new features, mentoring junior engineers and upholding high engineering standards across Scale AI as it applies RLHF, data generation, and model

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full‑time engineering experience, post‑graduation.
• Back-end systems for large‑scale data storage, streaming, and warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of data storage, streaming, caching, and indexing platforms.
• Drive architecture, design, implementation, and reliability of foundational data platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver new features.
• Mentor junior engineers and uphold engineering standards across the organization.
• Present technical information to stakeholders and guide development processes.

Skills

MongoDB

Postgres

ElasticSearch

Redis

Kinesis

Flink

Spark

Trino/Presto

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Cloud

Distributed systems

Backend

CircleCI

GDPR

Mentoring

Cross-functional

Scaling

AI technologies

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Platform Engineer to lead design and development of core data storage, streaming, caching, and indexing platforms. You will drive architecture and reliability of foundational data systems, working with stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver new features, mentoring junior engineers and upholding high engineering standards across Scale AI as it applies RLHF, data generation, and model