# Director, Orchestration at Upscale AI

- Company: Upscale AI
- What the company does: Upscale builds next-generation AI network infrastructure with scalable systems, intelligent automation, and seamless connectivity.
- Company website: https://upscale.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: US - Headquarters
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $313K to $353K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/upscale-ai/dd1765bc-d88e-4a10-8a16-fb9b8d727853
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/upscale-ai-director-orchestration/

## 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

Tags: Orchestration