Software Application Development Engineer in San Francisco

Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, Frontier AI Infrastructure to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will own the model inference layer - enabling state of the art models, debugging the latest AI tools, managing networking, debugging latency, and tracking pricing/usage metrics for AI models. You will lead technical discussions on the frontlines with cloud vendors and customers to deliver on critical contracts and to debug platform issues. You will also work upstream with Product to understand features before they break, moving us from "infra-only debugging" to proactive integration testing. You will: Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure. Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product. You will work with Product to build integration tests that catch issues early, shifting the focus from "infra-only debugging" to preventing failures upstream. Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings. Must have: At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance Ideally you'd have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, including experience with modern web develo

Software is eating the world, but AI is eating software. We live in unprecedented times – AI has the potential to exponentially augment human intelligence. Every person will have a personal tutor, coach, assistant, personal shopper, travel guide, and therapist throughout life. As the world adjusts to this new reality, leading platform companies are scrambling to build LLMs at billion scale, while large enterprises figure out how to add it to their products. To make them safe, aligned and actually useful, these models need human eval and reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF) during pre-training, fine-tuning, and production evaluations. This is the main innovation that’s enabled ChatGPT to get such a large headstart among competition. At Scale, our products include the Generative AI Data Engine, SGP, Donovan, and others that power the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF, human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. The data we are producing is some of the most important work for how humanity will interact with AI. At the foundation of these products is the Identity Engineering team. In this role, you will help support the design and development of core software systems specifically focused on identity, access management, authorization, and authentication. You’ll also get widespread exposure to the forefront of the AI race as Scale sees it in enterprises, startups, governments, and large tech companies. You will: Drive the design, and implementation of our identity infrastructure to ensure secure authentication and authorization across enterprise systems. Build software for authentication mechanisms such as Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and federated identity solutions (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect). Build software for authorization mechanisms such as Relation-based access control (ReBAC), Attribute-based access control (ABAC), Role-based access cont

Scale GP is Scale's enterprise Generative AI platform—APIs and infrastructure for knowledge retrieval, inference, evaluation, and intelligent automation. We power mission-critical workflows for leading enterprises, helping teams turn complex data and models into reliable, production-ready AI systems. We're building a new AI Enablement team to create the next generation of agent-powered tools that ground AI in real operational workflows. Our goal: help internal teams demystify their own workflows, then deploy agentic systems that reason over data, take action, and deliver measurable outcomes. We don't build in a vacuum. You'll use our own platform to solve real business problems internally—then selectively commercialize that same stack for customers. What we run on is what we sell. This is a 0→1 team. We're looking for a sharp, product-minded engineer who thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and loves building systems from scratch alongside customers and cross-functional partners. You'll work closely with product, forward-deployed engineers, data scientists, and applied AI teams to turn real-world problems into scalable production solutions. If you like shipping fast, owning outcomes, and working across the stack—from polished frontends to distributed backends to LLM integrations—this role is for you. What You’ll Do Own full-stack features and projects end-to-end — from design through production deployment — within a larger product area Sample surfaces - Accounting Agents, Finance Copilots, GTM Agents, Agentic Experimentation Platforms Develop reliable backend services in Typescript/Python, work with distributed systems, data pipelines, and AI/ML infrastructure Integrate LLMs, vector databases, and agentic frameworks to power intelligent workflows Ship quickly through tight experimentation loops while maintaining high quality and reliability Adapt across the stack and learn new tools as needed to solve real problems end-to-end Ideal Experience 3+ years of full-tim

Software is eating the world, but AI is eating software. We live in unprecedented times – AI has the potential to exponentially augment human intelligence. Every person will have a personal tutor, coach, assistant, personal shopper, travel guide, and therapist throughout life. As the world adjusts to this new reality, leading platform companies are scrambling to build LLMs at billion scale, while large enterprises figure out how to add it to their products. To make them safe, aligned and actually useful, these models need human eval and reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF) during pre-training, fine-tuning, and production evaluations. This is the main innovation that’s enabled ChatGPT to get such a large headstart among competition. At Scale, our products include the Generative AI Data Engine, SGP, Donovan, and others that power the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF, human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. The data we are producing is some of the most important work for how humanity will interact with AI. At the foundation of these products is the Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will support the design and development of shared platforms used across Scale. This includes designing our foundational data platforms and lifecycle, architecting Scale’s core cloud infrastructure and orchestration stack, and redefining how engineers develop, build, test, and deploy software at Scale. You’ll also get widespread exposure to the forefront of the AI race as Scale sees it in enterprises, startups, governments, and large tech companies. You will: Drive the design, and implementation of our foundational platforms and systems, working closely with stakeholders and internal customers to understand and refine requirements. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features. Proactively identifying opportunities for, and driving improvements to, current p

Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, ARC (Architecture, Reliability, & Compute) to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will define how the company ships software, establishing the patterns for deploying into complex government and high-security environments, rather than just running Terraform scripts. You will build and maintain internal CLIs/tools that standardize testing, deployment, environment management and are tools that engineering relies on to prevent downstream breakages. You will execute on automated deployment efforts to pay down tech debt, creating fully functional staging/testing environments, and defining the company's standard for safe deployments. You will: Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure. Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components. Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute the vision for backend solutions, ensuring they meet the unique needs of government agencies operating in secure environments. Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings. Must have: At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance Ideally you'd have: Full Stack Development: Prof

#Team Nextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com . Meet Your Future Neighbors As a Software Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll work across multiple phases of software development life cycle within a project to design, implement, and maintain the core backend systems that power the Company’s feed infrastructure. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs. We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London. The Impact You’ll Make If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, the satisfaction of seeing your design work come to life, and the pride in helping grow a world-class design team, this is the place for you. Your responsibilities will include: You’ll actively collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, data scientists, and other backend engineers to understand the needs of the users and define the technical requirements for new features, improvements, and bug fixes You’ll monitor the performance of the feed infrastructure to identify bottlenecks and resolve issues in a timely manner

About the Team Data is at the foundation of DoorDash success. The Data Engineering team builds database solutions for various use cases including reporting, product analytics, marketing optimization and financial reporting. By implementing pipelines, data structures, and data warehouse architectures; this team serves as the foundation for decision-making at DoorDash. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a Softare Engineer II to be a technical powerhouse to help us scale our data infrastructure, automation and tools to meet growing business needs. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Work with business partners and stakeholders to understand data requirements Work with engineering, product teams and 3rd parties to collect required data Design, develop and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse Develop and implement data quality checks, conduct QA and implement monitoring routines Improve the reliability and scalability of our ETL processes Manage a portfolio of data products that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data Help onboard and support other engineers as they join the team We're excited about you because… 3+ years of professional experience working in data engineering, business intelligence, or a similar role You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software Proficiency in programming languages such as Python/Java 3+ years of experience in ETL orchestration and workflow management tools like Airflow, Flink, Oozie and Azkaban using AWS/GCP Expert in Database fundamentals, SQL and distributed computing 3+ years of experience with the Distributed data/similar ecosystem (Spark, Hive, Druid, Presto) and streaming technologies such as Kafka/Flink. Experience working with Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL and/or other DBMS

About the Team DoorDash’s GenAI Platform team sits within Machine Learning Platform and builds the shared infrastructure that helps DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo teams safely bring GenAI-powered products, agents, automation, and personalization to production. Our mission is to increase the velocity of business impact from GenAI. A central pillar of that work is our evaluation platform — the unified evals backbone that lets teams measure, trace, and trust the quality of LLM and agent systems across the company, powering trace/score ingestion, LLM-as-judge workflows, agent simulations, and LLM observability for the tens of millions of daily requests flowing through our LLM Gateway. We also own core platform surfaces including the Agent Gateway, open-weights model serving and batch inference, guardrails, and cost attribution. About the Role You will join a small, high-leverage team building production infrastructure for Generative AI at DoorDash, with a primary focus on our evals and LLM observability platform: the systems that let teams evaluate, trace, and continuously improve the quality of LLM and agent products. You’ll work across evaluation frameworks and SDKs, OpenTelemetry-based trace/score ingestion, LLM-as-judge and offline/online eval pipelines, agent simulations, data pipelines, backend services, and observability. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building reliable measurement and quality primitives in a fast-moving technical area where product needs, model capabilities, vendor ecosystems, and evaluation methodologies are evolving quickly. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Build the infrastructure that helps DoorDash teams move GenAI ideas from prototype to production, increasing the velocity of business impact from AI across the company. Work on our unified evals platform — evaluation SDKs, OpenTelemetry trace/score ingestion, LLM-as-judge, offline and online eval pipelines, and agent simulations — alongside the LLM Gatew

About the Team Come help us build and develop tools serving hundreds of engineers internally! We’re looking for a Fullstack Software Engineer to join our Developer Insights team. About the Role Our mission is to improve the developer experience of engineers at DoorDash by building various internal products, including our internal developer portal, Developer Insights. Our success as a platform team depends on the success of the product teams we serve. Because of this, we invest in building a strong community that encourages participation and promotes best practices. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Introduce cutting edge technologies to our engineering organization, including tools built on LLMs Build new features for Developer Insights (using Backstage.io) Improve the developer experience for all of our engineers Work and collaborate across team boundaries. Contribute features and bug fixes to upstream open-source projects. Mentor and educate your peers. Lead the team in a technical fashion and assist in roadmap planning and measurement of existing features. Represent the team at large in OKR and engineering all-hands presentations. Context switch from frontend to backend to data depending on the need that arises. We’re excited about you because… You have at least 2 years of experience in web technologies using Typescript with React on the frontend with Java, Kotlin, Python or Go backend experience. You have a product mindset and apply that to how you would build out platform services. You love systems and software, and you're proficient in both. You’re curious and dive deep into different system architectures. You are an organized and excellent written and verbal communicator. You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software Compensation The successful candidate’s starti

About the Team The Storage organization builds and operates the online stateful systems and abstractions that DoorDash Engineering depends on: reliable, efficient, secure, and easy to use. Within Storage, the Distributed Caching team owns every caching offering at DoorDash end to end, including ElastiCache (Redis/Valkey), Boulder (our KVRocks-based key-value store for high-QPS feature serving), Entity Cache (read Bill Shen’s engineering blog post, “ High-Performance Proxy Cache for DoorDash Services ”), and the Distributed Lock Service, plus the smart clients (asgard-redis, valkey-go) that sit in front of them. These systems back critical product surfaces across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo: the team runs roughly 400 ElastiCache clusters serving hundreds of millions of GET requests per second in aggregate, and Boulder, our offline-to-online feature store, serves billions of feature lookups per second at peak. About the Role The team owns provisioning of clusters and the smart clients that sit in front of them, baking in sensible defaults so that other engineering teams get a turnkey caching solution instead of having to run their own. You'll help drive Boulder's evolution to scale further, improve cost efficiency, enhance performance, and support real-time updates; re-platform the Distributed Lock Service onto a strongly consistent backend; and build the self-serve tooling and recommendation engine that let customers describe a workload (QPS, TTL, payload size, latency profile) and get the right backend without talking to a human. You'll go deep on cache invalidation, replication, sharding, compaction, and failover, while shipping the guardrails, automation, and observability that keep this scale operable by a small team. You must be located in San Francisco, Seattle, or the New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You will report to the Engineering Manager on the Distributed Caching team within the Storage organization. You’re excited about this opportunity b

About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We are hiring a Software Integration Engineer for our Platform Integration team. This is a critical role with impact across the robot lifecycle, from manufacturing to daily operation. The Platform Integration team owns making sure the robot works as one cohesive system. The focus is on the interfaces between subsystems; this role in particular is focused on the software side handling interaction between: OS & software stack; firmware; networking; timing; and calibration. In this role, you will work cross functionally with our electrical, hardware, firmware, and autonomy engineers to support new functionality both in both hardware and software. This includes creating provisioning tools, functional tests, and supporting integration into the autonomy software stack. You will report to the Autonomy Platform Lead on our Autonomy Platform Team at DoorDash Labs. We expect this role to be hybrid with some time in-office and some time remote. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Play an integral role on a small and focused team. Lead system-level debug when an issue crosses subsystem boundaries or no single team can isolate it. Support early integration of new sensor and software component designs by identifying interface requirements, risks, dependencies and required checks. Design and maintain integration tests, test setups, and procedures to ensure subsystems, once combined, satisfy requirements and design intent. Build and maintain the mission-readiness checks used before manufacturing signoff, validation, field testing, or mission use for different robot platforms. Create the tools, checks, and debug guidance that Manufacturing Integration, Validation,

About the Team The Code Quality team sits within the Developer Platform organization and owns the systems that keep DoorDash's codebase healthy and secure as it scales: static analysis, quality gates, test frameworks, regression infrastructure, and tooling. Our job is to make sure the signals engineers rely on before shipping — test results, coverage, performance feedback etc — are fast and trustworthy. The decisions we make about tooling and standards directly shape how confidently and quickly engineering teams at DoorDash can ship to production. About the Role We're looking for Software Engineers to help build and maintain the systems that validate code quality across DoorDash's engineering org, treating our tooling as a critical product for the engineers who rely on it every day: static analysis and quality gates, test frameworks and regression infrastructure. You’ll design the tooling and automation that will help derive trustworthy quality signals, integrate them into the development lifecycle, and make it easy for engineers to execute reliable, repeatable workflows. You will collaborate across the engineering org, partnering directly with the teams who use what you build to understand the accuracy, reliability and performance of their functionality. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Code Quality team in our Developer Platform organization. You must be located in either San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Seattle, WA, or New York, NY. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Build and maintain quality tooling — static analysis, quality gates, coverage reporting, test frameworks, regression infrastructure — and integrate it directly into our developer workflows and CI/CD pipelines Define and derive quality signals - flakiness, pass rate, coverage, performance, scale readiness etc - Build tooling that improves everyday engineering workflows, including local development, CI/CD, debugging, and rollou

About the Team DoorDash is a data driven organization and relies on timely, accurate and reliable data to drive many business and product decisions. The Core Data Platform organization owns all the infrastructure necessary to run an operationally efficient analytical data stack. About the Roles The Data Platform team spans data mobility frameworks, ingestion, infrastructure, tools, and governance. Together, they design and operate scalable compute and ingestion frameworks using technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, and modern lakehouse solutions, while also building abstractions and tools that simplify data workflows for engineers, analysts, and ML practitioners. In parallel, these teams establish strong data quality, cataloging, privacy, and compliance standards to ensure trust in analytics and regulatory adherence. As relatively high-impact teams, they offer engineers the opportunity to shape the roadmap, influence core platform decisions, and directly enable DoorDash’s business-critical insights and real-time personalization capabilities. You must be located in San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Seattle, WA, or New York, NY. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Drive vision & strategy for building the frameworks charter and position it to handle the challenges of a rapidly growing business. Scale the analytical platform for the increasing amounts of data and use cases. You will bring your expertise in building and operating high scale systems with a focus on reliability, scalability and cost efficiency. Collaborate with stakeholders building solutions on top of the platform Foster a positive and supportive work culture, upleveling others. We're excited about you because you have… B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent. 2+ years of industry experience at our I4 level, 5+ years of industry experience at our I5 level Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in th

About the Team The Spark Platform team owns and operates DoorDash's Apache Spark ecosystem — the execution runtime, remote shuffle service, cluster scheduler, and reliability tooling that powers the company's data, analytics, and ML workloads. We run Spark across the company at significant scale and continue to expand the workloads, capabilities, and consumer base we serve. Orchestrating and operating thousands of Spark cluster deployments is a complex distributed system problem which the team invests heavily in runtime optimization, systems architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, and end-user tooling. About the Role As a Software Engineer on Spark Platform, you will execute across the surfaces of our in-house Spark deployment that serves the entire company. The work spans Spark runtime upgrades and performance, multi-tenant scheduling and executor bin-packing on Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle automation, and the observability and incident automation that keep the platform sustainable. You will move between layers as the work demands — picking up the next high-leverage problem regardless of where it sits — and partner closely with the rest of the team and with platform consumers across the company. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or New York City for this hybrid position. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Spark Platform team. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Build and operate an in-house Spark platform that runs at company-wide scale, spanning runtime, scheduler, reliability, and user-facing tooling. Drive multi-tenant scheduling, executor bin-packing, and cost-aware placement that let a small team serve dozens of consumer teams. Own pieces of cluster lifecycle automation — provisioning, upgrades, capacity changes, and node-failure handling — at a scale where these stop being manual events. Build the observability and incident automation that make the platform debuggable end-to-end and keep on-call sus

About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We're hiring a Robotics Infrastructure Engineer in our Autonomy Software team. In this role, you'll own, build, and manage the infrastructure that makes aerial autonomy development possible. You'll work on the onboard systems that keep a drone alive (process management, health monitoring, parameterization) and the development environment that makes the team fast (build systems, CI/CD, logging, debugging, regression testing). This is not cloud infrastructure. This is real-time, fault-tolerant, onboard software for vehicles that cannot gracefully restart at 50 meters altitude. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Play an integral role on a small and focused team Develop and own critical onboard components: process management, health monitoring, configuration management, and message passing Own the build system (C++, Python) and middleware layer (ROS2), including cross-compilation for Jetson targets Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and regression testing infrastructure Build and manage the parameterization system, including schema definition, validation, migration, and deployment Build robotics logging, plotting, and debugging tools that make the entire team more productive Work closely with the simulation team to support SIL/HIL development workflows Define reliability standards for onboard software: watchdogs, failover, and graceful degradation We're excited about you because… You have prior experience at a robotics company in a similar infrastructure role You have experience with robotics middleware (ROS2, LCM, eCal, Apex.AI) You have experience with build systems and package managers (CMake, Bazel, Nix, Conan) You have experience with NVidia Jetson and Je