Software Engineer, Platform

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

At the foundation of these products is the SGP Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will support the design and development of shared platforms used across Scale. This includes designing our foundational data platforms and lifecycle, architecting Scale’s core cloud infrastructure and orchestration stack, and redefining how engineers develop, build, test, and deploy software at Scale. You’ll also get widespread exposure to the forefront of the AI race as Scale sees it in enterprises, startups, governments, and large tech companies.

What it asks for · 9

• Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of highly scalable and reliable distributed systems hosted on public cloud platforms.
• Experience building document retrieval and understanding systems, such as RAG, to accurately ingest large-scale client knowledge into client agents and applications.
• A strong track record of independently owning and delivering successful engineering projects, including the ability to collaborate with and inspire others to engage with the problem space.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with long-running agent/code orchestration platforms, such as Temporal.
• Mastery of storing state with structured databases, including Postgres.
• Experience with multiple ways to persist contextual data, e.g., knowledge graphs and hierarchical indexes.
• Experience with other types of large data solutions, e.g., Databricks and Snowflake.
• Experience with authentication/authorization systems (Zanzibar, Authz, etc.).

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Words the posting leans on

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• platforms8×
• data6×
• software6×
• systems5×
• development4×
• engineering4×
• human4×
• large4×
• products4×
• technologies4×
• build3×
• design3×
• evaluation3×
• knowledge3×
• models3×

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