Scorpion · United States
About the Role
The Senior AI Software Engineer will be responsible for making Scorpion's Conversational Intelligence Platform production-grade by building reliable, observable, and scalable infrastructure for real-time AI workloads, including LLM orchestration, streaming responses, and event-driven messaging across multiple communication channels.
Responsibilities
Own the reliability of the event-driven messaging layer, including backpressure management, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and retry strategies.
Build and operate the infrastructure that runs LLM orchestration workloads at scale.
Own the operational data layer for the CI runtime, including state management, session persistence, and real-time data access patterns.
Own observability for the CI platform, including structured logging, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), and error tracking (Sentry).
Maintain and harden the interfaces between CI and downstream platforms, including contract testing, versioning, and failure handling.
Conduct code reviews and mentor team members on Python engineering practices and production readiness.
Own production support for CI infrastructure, including on-call responsibilities and incident response.