Senior Orchestration Platform Engineer

Scale AI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement benefits

Learning & development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve the orchestration platform that powers Scale's reusable workflows.

You will design primitives, services, and a developer experience to enable teams across Scale to author, operate, observe, and safely scale distributed workflows. You will work with Temporal, Cadence, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems to define APIs for scheduling, retries, state management, and lifecycle management, collaborating with product, infra, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, with emphasis on backend, infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Experience building and operating production systems with reliability, availability, and scale requirements.
• Deep familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, Cadence, AWS Step Functions, Kubernetes, or similar systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and operation of Scale's core orchestration platform.
• Build durable workflow infrastructure using Temporal, Cadence, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems.
• Define platform primitives and APIs for scheduling, retries, state management, task execution, observability, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with product, infrastructure, data, and application teams to translate workflow needs into reusable platform capabilities.
• Improve reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience of services that run critical company workflows.
• Establish technical standards and best practices for distributed workflow development, deployment, testing, and incident response.
• Drive cross-functional technical decisions and communicate platform direction clearly to engineers and stakeholders.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Reliability

Communication

Tools

Temporal

Cadence

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

AWS Step Functions

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve the orchestration platform that powers Scale's reusable workflows.

You will design primitives, services, and a developer experience to enable teams across Scale to author, operate, observe, and safely scale distributed workflows. You will work with Temporal, Cadence, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems to define APIs for scheduling, retries, state management, and lifecycle management, collaborating with product, infra, and