Position Details

Type Full-Time

Experience senior

Exp. Years 8+ years

Education Not specified

Category Software Engineering

About this role

Staff Software Engineer, Platform at Scale AI leads architectural development of core data infrastructure and orchestration across AI data pipelines, with exposure to LLM/AI workloads and cloud-native tech stack.

Key Responsibilities

Architect foundational systems, drive adoption of AI data infrastructure, manage data pipelines and orchestration platforms, mentor across teams, upgrade development lifecycle

Technical Overview

Distributed systems focus with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, Temporal), data stores (PostgreSQL, MongoDB), and CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, ArgoCD).

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior platform engineer with 8+ years of full-time engineering experience, deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and orchestration (Temporal, AWS Step Functions), and strong background with PostgreSQL/MongoDB and data infrastructure in a SaaS environment.

Must-Have Skills

8+ years of full-time engineering experienceExtensive experience in software development and distributed systemsExperience with KubernetesTerraformDockerExperience with orchestration platforms (Temporal and AWS Step Functions)Experience with NoSQL MongoDB and PostgreSQLStrong knowledge of CI/CD tooling (CircleCIArgoCD)

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience with data warehouses (SnowflakeFirebolt) and data pipeline/ETL tools (Dagsterdbt)Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startupsExcitement to work with AI technologies

Tools & Platforms

KubernetesTerraformDockerTemporalAWSPostgreSQLMongoDBCircleCIArgoCDSnowflakeFireboltDagsterdbt

Required Skills

KubernetesTerraformDockerTemporalAWSPostgreSQLMongoDBNoSQLCircleCIArgoCDSnowflakeFireboltDagsterdbt

Hard Skills

KubernetesTerraformDockerTemporalAWSPostgreSQLMongoDBNoSQLCircleCIArgoCDSnowflakeFireboltDagsterdbt

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationleadershipmentorshipproblem-solving

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS

Job Function Define and drive architectural roadmap for Scale AI’s Platform data infrastructure

Role Subtype Platform Engineer

Tech Domains Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Temporal, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NoSQL, Snowflake, Dagster

Keywords for Your Resume

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Deal Breakers

Lack of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, or Docker, No experience with distributed data stores (PostgreSQL, MongoDB), Insufficient years of engineering experience (8+ expected)

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