Job brief: Senior Software Engineer, Agent Oversight

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Scale AI's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-12 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-12.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Scale AI's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $216,000 to $270,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · New York, NY · San Francisco, CA
• Posted: 2026-07-14 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong fundamentals in backend/distributed systems, APIs, and data pipeline design
• The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale;

Conditions

• We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Main duties

• Design and build core platform capabilities for deploying, monitoring, and evaluating agentic applications in production
• Build reliable APIs and data pipelines that capture agent telemetry, evaluation signals, and performance metrics at scale
• Work alongside ML engineers where platform work intersects with evaluation or improvement systems — bringing enough ML fluency to reason about model behavior…
• Own the reliability, scalability, and observability of platform components serving multiple concurrent enterprise and government customers
• Work cross-functionally with product, forward deployed engineering, and customers to translate real-world deployment requirements into platform features

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in New York, NY: $209k a year (168 listings, 20 employers). This listing is 16% higher.
• Across Scale AI's 130 open listings, 72% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Scale AI hires

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