Base Salary
$138k - $259k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure, scalable backend systems for public-sector customers.
- Own services and systems, define long-term health goals, and improve surrounding components.
- Re-architect the stack for compliant, restrictive, air-gapped, and isolated environments.
- Design swappable authentication, storage, and logging components to meet government and security mandates.
- Build integration tests with Product to detect failures upstream and reduce infrastructure-only debugging.
- Participate in customer engagements and collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
- Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI’s public-sector business.
- Lead technical discussions with cloud vendors and customers and debug platform issues involving inference, networking, latency, and usage metrics.
Requirements
- An active Secret clearance and the ability and willingness to obtain TS/SCI with CI Poly are required.
- Proficiency in both frontend and backend development, including modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases.
- Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud-native environments is desired.
- Experience delivering software to air-gapped and isolated environments is a plus.
- Experience with federal compliance frameworks and requirements, including Cloud SRG, FedRAMP, and STIG Benchmarks, is desired.
- Experience developing software and technical solutions that satisfy strict security and regulatory requirements.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, communication, adaptability, and learning agility skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous paid time off.
- The role may include a commuter stipend and equity compensation for eligible roles.
- The position requires working three to four days per week from the DC, San Francisco, New York City, or St. Louis office.
- The full-time role has location-dependent base salary ranges and is subject to a 90-day waiting period before reconsideration for the same role.
About Scale AI
Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. We provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. The Scale Generative AI Platform allows customers to build, evaluate, and control advanced AI agents and applications that continuously improve. The Scale Data Engine provides the technology to collect, curate, and annotate high-quality datasets. Through our Scale Labs, we test models with rigorous benchmarks and novel research to ensure breakthroughs translate into systems people can trust. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through RLHF, data generation and model evaluation. We work with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.