Summary
What you’ll impact
Our organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and operation of its core orchestration platform, enabling reliable, scalable distributed workflows across the organization. The role focuses on building infrastructure, defining platform APIs, and improving reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience for critical workflows.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and operation of Scale’s core orchestration platform.
- Build durable workflow infrastructure using technologies such as Temporal, Cadence, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems.
- Define platform primitives and APIs for scheduling, retries, state management, task execution, observability, and workflow lifecycle management.
- Partner with product, infrastructure, data, and application teams to understand workflow needs and turn them into reusable platform capabilities.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience of services that run critical company workflows.
- Establish technical standards and best practices for distributed workflow development, deployment, testing, and incident response.
- Drive cross-functional technical decisions and communicate platform direction clearly to engineers and stakeholders.
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, with a focus on backend, infrastructure, and distributed systems.
- Experience building and operating production systems with strong requirements for reliability, availability, and scale.
- Deep familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, Cadence, AWS Step Functions, Kubernetes, or similar systems.
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized production environments, and familiarity with Terraform, Docker.
- Strong knowledge of distributed-systems concepts, including asynchronous execution, retries, idempotency, fault tolerance, state management, and observability.
- A track record of leading technically complex projects from design through rollout and ongoing operation.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with platform consumers and non-technical stakeholders.