Mission-Critical Public Sector Software Engineer

Visa Hunt; Austin, Honolulu (TX, HI); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Learning stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale is hiring for a hybrid, customer-facing engineering role on the Public Sector team, embedding with U.S. government customers to design, build, deploy, and maintain AI-enabled solutions from prototype to production.

You will collaborate with product and engineering to ensure adoption of scalable patterns, work across cloud stacks, and tackle complex backend and data integration challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing, forward-deployed, or government contexts.
• Strong production coding in Python and TypeScript (or comparable modern languages).
• Comfort across the stack, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containers, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and make sound trade-offs under pressure.
• An active TS/SCI clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.

Responsibilities

• Embed with government customers to understand their mission, scope the problem, and turn it into working software.
• Own delivery end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and maintain solutions at customer sites, from prototype to stable production.
• Build robust backend systems and data integrations that connect customer environments to Scale's platform and back.
• Partner with product and engineering to feed field signals back into the roadmap, so patterns become reusable capabilities.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, guiding adoption and maximizing mission impact.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Cloud

Linux

Containers

Networking

Clearance

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Scale is hiring for a hybrid, customer-facing engineering role on the Public Sector team, embedding with U.S. government customers to design, build, deploy, and maintain AI-enabled solutions from prototype to production.

You will collaborate with product and engineering to ensure adoption of scalable patterns, work across cloud stacks, and tackle complex backend and data integration challenges in a fast-paced environment.