✦ Luna Orbit — Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Connectivity

at Scale AI

📍 San Francisco, CA; New York, NY Onsite Posted April 02, 2026
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Position Details

Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 5+ years
Education Not specified
Category Software Engineering

About this role

Senior Backend Engineer focused on Frontier Data backend systems, building scalable data pipelines and agentic tasks near AI/ML workloads.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own major backend systems for frontier agentic data products
  • Build scalable services and pipelines for agent workflows
  • Architect modular backend systems for evolving product needs
  • Collaborate with product, research/ML, and infra teams
  • Improve system performance and cost efficiency

Technical Overview

Backend systems with distributed architectures and containerized deployments; data pipelines and SQL-backed data models; close coupling with AI/ML components.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior backend engineer with deep experience in distributed systems and data pipelines, comfortable working close to AI/ML systems in production within SF or NY.

Must-Have Skills

5+ years of software engineeringStrong backend engineering fundamentals: distributed systemsAPI designdata modelingproduction reliabilityExperience with Docker and containerized development/production environmentsExperience building systems that scale: queuesasync processingworkflow enginesdata pipelinesComfort working close to AI/ML systems (production experience welcome; curiosity valued)

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience integrating with public LLM APIs and designing systems that handle scalereliabilitylatencyand cost tradeoffsExperience building or operating data processing and transformation systems

Tools & Platforms

PythonDockerKubernetesSQL / PostgreSQLAPIs

Required Skills

PythonDockerKubernetesSQL / PostgreSQLDistributed systems

Hard Skills

PythonDockerKubernetesSQL / PostgreSQLDistributed systems

Soft Skills

architectural judgmentbias toward correctnessreliabilityownershipcollaboration

Industry & Role

Industry AI & Machine Learning
Job Function Design and build scalable backend platforms powering Scale's frontier data products
Role Subtype Backend Engineer
Tech Domains Python, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL / PostgreSQL

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