Systems and methods scale an instance group of a computing platform by determining whether to scale up or down the instance group by using historical data from prior jobs wherein the historical data includes one or more of: a data set size used in a prior related job and a code version for a prior related job. The systems and methods also scale the instance group up or down based on the determination. In some examples, systems and methods scale an instance group of a computing platform by determining a job dependency tree for a plurality of related jobs, determining runtime data for each of the jobs in the dependency tree and scaling up or down the instance group based on the determined runtime data.