# Software Engineer, Platform

**Company:** [Scale AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/scale-ai)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Backend Systems, Distributed Systems, Public Cloud, RAG, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Temporal, Postgres, CI/CD, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, AWS, Azure, Databricks
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Build and evolve shared platform infrastructure, data systems, and developer tooling for AI products. The role requires 5+ years of backend engineering experience, distributed systems expertise, and familiarity with cloud, orchestration, databases, and CI/CD technologies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement foundational platforms and systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, design solutions, and deliver features.
- Experiment with emerging AI techniques and technologies.
- Improve programming practices, processes, and development tools.
- Present technical information and provide guidance on development processes and technologies.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of full-time engineering experience after graduation, specializing in back-end systems.
- Experience developing highly scalable and reliable distributed systems on public cloud platforms.
- Experience building document retrieval and understanding systems, including RAG.
- Demonstrated ownership and delivery of successful engineering projects.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with containerization and deployment technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker.
- Experience with long-running agent and code orchestration platforms such as Temporal.
- Expertise with structured databases, including Postgres.
- Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and CI/CD tooling, including CircleCI and GitHub Actions.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with multiple cloud platforms, including GCP, AWS, Azure, Oracle, or on-premises environments.
- Experience persisting contextual data with knowledge graphs and hierarchical indexes.
- Experience with large-scale data solutions such as Databricks and Snowflake.
- Experience with authentication and authorization systems such as Zanzibar and Authz.
- Experience scaling technical products at hyper-growth startups.

## Similar jobs

- [Systems Engineer, Network Protocols & Distributed Systems](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/19f9e6a4-33f0-4534-9be2-be9b1cbd40b3) - Cloudflare - Austin, TX - €54k – €75k/yr
- [C++ Engineer - Experience](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/f970e98f-e8ac-411e-bf8a-c9103a39be17) - Spotify - Stockholm, Sweden
- [Software Engineer - Wallets](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/32955ac3-4c1c-4a94-83a2-7e6f18965180) - Rain - Remote - $220k – $270k/yr
- [Software Engineer, Security Rules](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/9a2c11ea-488a-48a8-b676-ee3a561c4270) - Cloudflare - Lisbon, Portugal - €54k – €91k/yr
- [Product Engineer, Ona](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/fced2e7b-d946-44bb-8c1c-50640be580c3) - OpenAI - San Francisco, CA - $255k – $445k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/e57a78fc-aff8-4ee1-897a-4b82e983e191
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/e57a78fc-aff8-4ee1-897a-4b82e983e191