# Senior Software Engineer, Orchestration Platform at Scale

- Company: Scale
- What the company does: Scale delivers proven data, evaluations, and outcomes to AI labs, governments, and the Fortune 500. Backed by Accel, Index and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.scale.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-01
- Apply by: 2026-11-15
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scaleai/jobs/4739920005?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scale-senior-software-engineer-orchestration-platform/

## About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, with a focus on backend, infrastructure, and distributed systems
- Experience building and operating production systems with strong requirements for reliability, availability, and scale
- Deep familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, Cadence, AWS Step Functions, Kubernetes, or similar systems
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized production environments, and familiarity with Terraform, Docker
- Strong knowledge of distributed-systems concepts, including asynchronous execution, retries, idempotency, fault tolerance, state management, and observability
- A track record of leading technically complex projects from design through rollout and ongoing operation

Tags: Horizontals EPD

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scale-senior-software-engineer-orchestration-platform/