Scale AI
Senior Software Engineer, Orchestration Platform
$216K–$270K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, focused on backend, infrastructure, and distributed systems.
About the job
Build and operate Scale’s distributed workflow orchestration platform, creating reusable infrastructure and developer tools for critical company workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of the core orchestration platform.
- Define workflow primitives and APIs for scheduling, retries, state management, execution, observability, and lifecycle management.
- Partner across teams to improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience.
What they ask for
- Production systems experience with strong reliability, availability, and scale requirements.
- Deep familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms and Kubernetes/containerized production environments.
- Strong distributed-systems knowledge, including asynchronous execution, retries, idempotency, fault tolerance, state management, and observability.
- Track record leading complex technical projects from design through rollout and ongoing operation.
Nice to have
- Experience with Snowflake or Firebolt and Dagster or dbt.
- Experience with authentication/authorization systems such as Zanzibar or Authz; experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups is also a plus.
Pay
$216,000 — $270,000 USD base salary
Tools
Temporal, Cadence, Kubernetes, AWS Step Functions, Terraform, Docker, Snowflake, Firebolt
AI focus
The role builds orchestration infrastructure that supports AI-related products and workflows; excitement to work with AI technologies is listed as a nice-to-have.
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