Senior Software Engineer, Connectivity

📋 Description

• Design and own foundational platform systems that support scalable data generation, evaluation, and bespoke customer delivery across Scale’s ecosystem.
• Architect extensible, production-grade services that can support frontier AI workflows, including multi-modal inputs, long-running processes, and agentic orchestration.
• Build and operate distributed systems at scale, with strong guarantees around correctness, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Integrate with public LLM APIs and AI services, designing abstractions that are resilient to model churn, latency variability, and evolving usage patterns.
• Design and maintain data transformation and processing systems, supporting complex schema evolution, customization, and high-throughput workloads.
• Partner closely with infrastructure, product, and customer-facing teams to define requirements, shape technical direction, and deliver seamless integration experiences for customers.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong background in building and operating large-scale, production-grade platforms.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, including Kubernetes, microservices, event-driven systems, caching, and production databases.
• Proven ability to lead multi-quarter technical initiatives, work effectively across cross-functional teams, and apply strong architectural judgment in ambiguous environments.
• Preferred: Experience integrating with public LLM APIs and designing systems that handle scale, reliability, latency, and cost tradeoffs.
• Preferred: Experience building or operating data processing and transformation systems supporting complex workflows and evolving schemas.

🎁 Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous PTO
• Commuter stipend