Team Lead, ARC Team

<p>Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Team Lead for our ARC (Architecture, Reliability, &amp; Compute) team supporting our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As the lead of this team, you will define <em>how</em> 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. As Team Lead, you will provide mentorship for the rest of the team and manage their performance while also guiding the technical direction of the team.</p> <p><strong>You will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure.</li> <li>Provide mentorship to and manage the performance of the other team members</li> <li>Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Must have:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>At least an active secret clearance. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance</strong></li> </ul> <p><strong>Ideally you'd have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Full Stack Development: Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, including experience with modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases. Experience with developing &amp; delivering software to air-gapped &amp; isolated environments is a plus.</li> <li>Cloud-Native Technologies: Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and