# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Scale AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/scale-ai)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $252k – $315k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, LLMs
**Posted:** 2026-07-09

> Staff Fullstack Engineer and Architect role leading architectural overhaul of AI data platform infrastructure for LLM integration. Dynamically embed into high-priority projects across Contributor teams (Allocation, Growth, Trust & Safety), own ambiguous problems end-to-end, mentor engineers, and drive scalability across backend, frontend, and ML systems. Requires 7+ years experience as Tech Lead/Architect.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Deploy flexibly into critical, fast-moving product initiatives across the Contributor organization.
- Lead the architectural overhaul of our platform infrastructure, making it highly sustainable, robust, and optimized for deep integration with LLMs and foundation models.
- Lead architecture decisions for scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Mentor and uplevel engineers across the team.
- Partner with product and leadership to shape roadmap and priorities.
- Own large, ambiguous problem spaces end-to-end.
- Work across backend, frontend, and ML systems.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation, with a proven track record of operating as a Tech Lead, Architect, or Principal Engineer.
- Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale.
- Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and SQL.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience tinkering with or productizing LLMs, vector databases, and the other latest AI technologies.

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