Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling

Highlights

• Redefine how engineers build, test and deploy software using AI tools.
• Build next-gen AI dev tooling powering world-leading LLMs and models.
• Join Platform Engineering at foundation of Scale's Generative AI Data Engine.

What they offer

• Base salary
• Equity
• Benefits

Ideal candidate

Experienced platform engineer who loves improving how teams build software and mentoring engineers at all levels. You are energized by AI-assisted development and independently owning high-impact tooling.

Requirements

• 8+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation, with experience in build, test, or CI/CD systems
• Extensive experience defining and evangelizing best-practices for AI development tools, including cost guardrails and security frameworks
• Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of distributed systems and public cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Experience configuring, testing, and enabling MCP servers, AI agents, and other associated systems
• Track record of independent ownership of successful engineering projects
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with infrastructure, containerization, and deployment technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with modern web frameworks like NodeJS, NextJS
• Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, Helm, ArgoCD)