3 months ago
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 AI builds data annotation services and AI development tools for enterprises and government agencies, sold as a platform and managed services. Its products include the Scale Generative AI Platform for building and evaluating agents and the Data Engine for collecting, curating, and labeling training data, including RLHF and model evaluation. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and works across domains from computer vision to LLM applications.