Senior Platform Engineer: Orchestrating Scalable AI Workflows

Precision Labs; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale’s Orchestration Platform team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate durable workflow infrastructure that powers data and model-evaluation pipelines across the company. You will lead architecture decisions, implement platform primitives, and ensure reliability at scale for internal services used by multiple teams.

You will collaborate with product, infra, and data teams, shaping how workflows are authored, executed, observed, and secured while advancing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, with a focus 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.
• Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized production environments, and familiarity with Terraform, Docker.
• Strong knowledge of distributed-systems concepts, including asynchronous execution, retries, idempotency, fault tolerance, state management, and observability.
• A track record of leading technically complex projects from design through rollout and ongoing operation.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with platform consumers and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and operation of Scale’s core orchestration platform.
• Build durable workflow infrastructure using technologies such as Temporal, Cadence, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems.
• Define platform primitives and APIs for scheduling, retries, state management, task execution, observability, and workflow lifecycle management.
• Partner with product, infrastructure, data, and application teams to understand workflow needs and turn them into reusable platform capabilities.
• Improve the 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.

Job description

Scale’s Orchestration Platform team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate durable workflow infrastructure that powers data and model-evaluation pipelines across the company. You will lead architecture decisions, implement platform primitives, and ensure reliability at scale for internal services used by multiple teams.

You will collaborate with product, infra, and data teams, shaping how workflows are authored, executed, observed, and secured while advancing