Team Lead, ARC Software Engineering Team

Scale AI • Washington, DC

8d • $245,600 - $307,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Scale AI is seeking a Team Lead for its Architecture, Reliability, & Compute (ARC) team supporting the Public Sector Engineering team. The role defines how the company ships software, including patterns for deploying into complex government and high-security environments. The Team Lead builds and maintains internal command-line interfaces and tools that standardize testing, deployment, and environment management, and help prevent downstream breakages. The role also advances automated deployments, reduces technical debt, creates functional staging and testing environments, and establishes standards for safe deployments.

The Team Lead provides mentorship and manages team performance while guiding the team's technical direction. They design secure, scalable backend systems for public-sector customers and re-architect the technology stack for compliant or restrictive environments by designing swappable components such as authentication, storage, and logging. The role collaborates with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, participates in customer engagements, and contributes to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business.

This role requires support for work three days a week from the Washington, DC; San Francisco; New York City; or St. Louis office. Candidates must hold at least an active Secret clearance. The position is full-time. The listed base salary range for Washington, DC is $245,600–$307,000 USD. Eligible compensation packages may include equity and benefits, including comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, generous paid time off, and potentially a commuter stipend.

Requirements

• Hold at least an active Secret clearance; candidates without at least a Secret clearance will not be considered.
• Be able to support work three days a week from the Washington, DC, San Francisco, New York City, or St. Louis office.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in full-stack development, including front-end and back-end development, modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases.
• Experience developing and delivering software to air-gapped and isolated environments.
• Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and experience developing and deploying applications in cloud-native environments.
• Experience with federal compliance frameworks and requirements such as Cloud SRG, FedRAMP, and STIG Benchmarks.
• Experience developing software and technical solutions that meet strict security and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to diagnose root causes and develop effective solutions.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for collaboration with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and customers; ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Willingness to embrace new technologies, learn new skills, adapt to evolving project requirements, and stay current with software engineering trends.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable backend systems for public-sector customers using Scale's cloud-native AI infrastructure.
• Mentor team members and manage their performance.
• Own services or systems, define their long-term health goals, and improve the health of surrounding components.
• Re-architect the technology stack for compliant or restrictive environments, designing swappable authentication, storage, and logging components to meet government and security mandates without breaking the product.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute backend solution direction for government agencies operating in secure environments.
• Participate in customer engagements and work with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business.
• Define software delivery patterns for complex government and high-security environments.
• Build and maintain internal CLIs and tools for standardized testing, deployment, and environment management.
• Advance automated deployments, reduce technical debt, create staging and testing environments, and establish safe deployment standards.
• Guide the technical direction of the ARC team.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous paid time off
• Potential commuter stipend
• Equity-based compensation for eligible roles, subject to Board of Director approval

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed