Senior Backend Engineer
Scale AIWashington, DConsite$140K–$225KDataPosted 1mo ago · Aug 5, 2026
Scale AI is hiring a senior backend engineer to work on software engineering for data labelling, evaluation and post-training infrastructure for ai labs.
What you would own
- Design, build and operate services that carry production traffic.
- Raise the reliability and latency bar for the systems you own.
- Review designs and mentor engineers across the team.
Skills
PythonKubernetesPostgreSQLReactAWSTypeScriptRustgRPCTerraform
What Agraph knows about Scale AI
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Employees
1.1K
-6.4% 90d
Open roles
96
-23% 30d
Remote share
21%
Activity score
68
0–100
Hiring slowdown
Scale AI job postings down 23% in 30 days
Open roles fell from 124 to 96 over the trailing 30 days. The pullback is concentrated in machine learning engineer postings.
Open job postings96-23%/ 30 days
Falling postings tend to precede a hiring freeze rather than follow one.
VerifiedAgraph dataHigh importance47
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