Senior Software Engineer, Orchestration Platform

<p>Scale is building reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. Our products help leading enterprises, governments, and frontier AI labs build, deploy, and evaluate AI systems at scale.</p> <p>The Orchestration Platform is a core technology used across the company to run durable, reliable, and scalable workflows. It powers the complex, long-running processes behind Scale’s products - from data and model-evaluation pipelines to operational systems and customer-facing workflows.</p> <p>As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help build and evolve this foundational orchestration platform. You will design the primitives, services, and developer experience that enable teams across Scale to author, operate, observe, and safely scale distributed workflows. This is a high-leverage role for an engineer excited by distributed systems, reliability, and platform infrastructure used by many internal teams.</p> <p>You will:</p> <ul> <li>Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and operation of Scale’s core orchestration platform.</li> <li>Build durable workflow infrastructure using technologies such as Temporal, Cadence, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems.</li> <li>Define platform primitives and APIs for scheduling, retries, state management, task execution, observability, and workflow lifecycle management.</li> <li>Partner with product, infrastructure, data, and application teams to understand workflow needs and turn them into reusable platform capabilities.</li> <li>Improve the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience of services that run critical company workflows.</li> <li>Establish technical standards and best practices for distributed workflow development, deployment, testing, and incident response.</li> <li>Drive cross-functional technical decisions and communicate platform direction clearly to engineers and stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p>Ideally, you have:</p> <ul> <li>5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, with