Senior Software Engineer, Orchestration Platform

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

Posted Oct 1, 2026

Est. total comp~$201K–$317K

Apply on Scale AI's site ↗

From the posting

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.

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.

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.

You will:

Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and operation of Scale’s core orchestration platform.

Build durable workflow infrastructure using technologies such as Temporal, Cadence, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems.

Define platform primitives and APIs for scheduling, retries, state management, task execution, observability, and workflow lifecycle management.

Partner with product, infrastructure, data, and application teams to understand workflow needs and turn them into reusable platform capabilities. …

Excerpt from Scale AI's public job board. Read the full posting.

Get ready for this role

Crew department: Comms

Skills this kind of role usually asks for:

Scheduling
Customer-facing work
Embedded C and C++
RF and antennas basics
Networking

Train for it: the Comms Track: Spacecraft Links and Flight Software Basics. 4 short modules, a quiz after each one and a final test. Pass it and you get the Mars Mining Certificate in Spacecraft Comms Fundamentals, with its own public page you can link from your resume.

Join the crew and train for this role About Comms

Quick self-check: are you ready for this one?Free, no signup. Your answers stay in this browser tab.

I can do Scheduling on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Customer-facing work on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Embedded C and C++ on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do RF and antennas basics on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Networking on the job, or have used it in a class or project I have a project or work sample I could show an interviewer My resume is tailored to this kind of role I've practiced answering interview questions for this kind of job

Free. The department comes from the job title and can be off. A Mars Mining certificate shows you studied and passed our test; it isn't a license or academic credit.

About this listing. Pulled automatically from Scale AI's public job board and refreshed daily; closed roles are removed. Mars Mining Co. is not the employer, does not take applications and does not screen candidates. Field and level labels come from the job title and can be wrong.

More at Scale AI

Infrastructure Software Engineer, Apps Platform London, UK
Machine Learning Research Intern (Summer 2027) New York, NY; San Francisco, CA
Systems Engineering Integration & Test Lead, Public Sector Washington, DC
Enterprise AI Development Strategist New York, NY; San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer, Public Sector - New Grad San Francisco, CA

All Scale AI roles on our board →

New to the field? Use the roadmap or read the break-in guides.

Senior Software Engineer, Orchestration Platform

From the posting

More at Scale AI

Get new openings in the Friday briefing