# Senior Software Engineer, Connectivity

**Company**: Scale
**Location**: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $216,000-$270,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scaleai/jobs/4654275005
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_eb830261-e76

## Description

We're looking for a senior engineer with deep experience building robust platforms. As a member of the Connectivity team, you'll design and own foundational platform systems that support scalable data generation, evaluation, and bespoke customer delivery across Scale's ecosystem.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Designing extensible, production-grade services that can support frontier AI workflows, including multi-modal inputs, long-running processes, and agentic orchestration.

- Building and operating distributed systems at scale, with strong guarantees around correctness, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.

- Integrating with public LLM APIs and AI services, designing abstractions that are resilient to model churn, latency variability, and evolving usage patterns.

- Designing and maintaining data transformation and processing systems, supporting complex schema evolution, customization, and high-throughput workloads.

- Partnering closely with infrastructure, product, and customer-facing teams to define requirements, shape technical direction, and deliver seamless integration experiences for customers.

- Leading multi-quarter technical initiatives, including authoring and driving a 6+ month technical roadmap for major platform investments.

- Applying strong engineering judgment in ambiguous problem spaces, balancing speed with long-term maintainability and operational excellence.

- Raising the quality bar through thoughtful system design reviews, rigorous code reviews, and mentorship grounded in real-world production experience.

Ideal Experience:

- 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.

Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- cloud-native architectures
- Kubernetes
- microservices
- event-driven systems
- caching
- production databases

### Nice to have
- LLM APIs
- AI services
- data transformation
- processing systems