Staff Platform Engineer, AI Dev Tools & CI/CD

Scale AI, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 252,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity-based compensation

Health, dental and vision insurance

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to redefine how engineers build, test, and deploy software using AI development tools. You will work across architecture, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines, mentoring engineers and shaping best practices.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and modern web frameworks such as NodeJS and NextJS. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable software in a fast-paced scale-up environment in New

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-time engineering experience after graduation.
• Experience defining and evangelizing best-practices for AI development tools, including cost guardrails, security frameworks, and hosting knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Extensive experience in software development with distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Experience configuring, testing, and enabling MCP servers, AI agents, and related systems.
• Track record of independent ownership of successful engineering projects.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to translate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with infrastructure, containerization, and deployment technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with modern web frameworks like NodeJS, NextJS.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tooling such as CircleCI, Helm, ArgoCD.

Responsibilities

• Define next-generation AI development tooling and frameworks using products like Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and in-house solutions.
• Architect, design, and implement local development processes, build, test, CI/CD and delivery systems with stakeholders.
• Mentor software engineers from new grads to experienced engineers.
• Identify opportunities and drive improvements to development practices, processes, tools, and languages.
• Present technical information to teams and stakeholders, providing guidance on development processes and technologies.

Skills

Engineering experience

CI/CD practices

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Build/test tooling

Mentoring engineers

Containerization

NodeJS/NextJS

CI/CD tooling (CircleCI)

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

NodeJS

NextJS

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to redefine how engineers build, test, and deploy software using AI development tools. You will work across architecture, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines, mentoring engineers and shaping best practices.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and modern web frameworks such as NodeJS and NextJS. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable software in a fast-paced scale-up environment in New