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Director, Orchestration

Upscale AI · US - Headquarters · On-site

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About Upscale AI

Upscale builds next-generation AI network infrastructure with scalable systems, intelligent automation, and seamless connectivity.

About the role

You will set the multi-year technical vision for the platform — and prove it works by building it. This is not a strategy-only role. You perform competency analysis across the architecture, build working prototypes to validate direction, write production code, and lead cross-functional delivery. You are accountable to stakeholders for the quality and viability of what ships. You work hand-in-hand with Product to ensure the technical vision maps to customer value.

What they're looking for

  • 18–20+ years building and operating distributed systems serving enterprise customers across cloud and on-prem environments
  • Deep proficiency in Go (or comparable systems language) with strong distributed systems fundamentals
  • Significant experience designing observability and telemetry platforms: collection agents, stream processing, time-series databases, alerting pipelines, and real-time dashboards at scale
  • Production experience with microservices architecture: gRPC, Protocol Buffers, spec-first REST APIs (OpenAPI)
  • Hands-on with multiple storage paradigms: relational, graph, time-series, key-value, and streaming
  • Track record building multi-tenant platforms with tenant isolation, RBAC, and identity federation
More about this role

Upscale, Inc., is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $300M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads.

We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical. Our team is talent-dense and high-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the opportunity to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact.

If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move fast, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard.

You will set the multi-year technical vision for the platform — and prove it works by building it. This is not a strategy-only role. You perform competency analysis across the architecture, build working prototypes to validate direction, write production code, and lead cross-functional delivery. You are accountable to stakeholders for the quality and viability of what ships. You work hand-in-hand with...

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