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Senior Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer

Nscale282 open roles

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$230,000 – $320,000 a year
Where
New York; San Francisco
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Your applicationOpen nowSenior Staff Cloud Native Software EngineerNscale · New York; San Francisco

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About the Role (Job Purpose)

The Senior Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer is a pillar-level technical leader responsible for the long-term coherence, roadmap, and architectural quality of a broad area of Nscale’s cloud-native platform. This role spans multiple related teams and domains, ensuring that platform capabilities evolve in a consistent, scalable, and strategically useful way.

This role combines hands-on technical depth with broad architectural leadership. You will define multi-year direction across a platform pillar, lead major cross-team initiatives, and establish standards and engineering practices that are adopted widely. You will work through influence rather than formal authority, aligning teams around a common direction while remaining grounded in the realities of implementation and operations.

As a Senior Staff engineer, you are expected to solve ambiguous, high-leverage problems that cut across systems and teams. You will identify systemic technical risks, reduce fragmentation, and help multiple teams make better decisions by creating clarity, shared patterns, and a stronger architectural foundation.

What You’ll be Doing (Responsibilities)

Pillar Architecture & Roadmap

  • Define and evolve the technical roadmap for a broad platform pillar spanning multiple related teams or domains
  • Lead major architectural initiatives that affect multiple subsystems, services, or platform capabilities
  • Ensure architectural decisions made across teams contribute to a coherent long-term platform direction
  • Identify systemic weaknesses, duplication, and architectural drift, and drive corrective action before they become entrenched
  • Translate strategic product, infrastructure, and platform goals into clear technical direction for multiple teams

Standards, Patterns & Governance

  • Define and maintain pillar-wide standards for:
  • controller and operator design
  • API and CRD design
  • compatibility, versioning, and deprecation
  • observability, rollout, and operational behaviour
  • Ensure consistency across teams in Kubernetes usage, reconciliation semantics, service boundaries, and failure handling
  • Create shared abstractions, reference implementations, and engineering guardrails that increase consistency without adding unnecessary bureaucracy
  • Review designs across the pillar to prevent divergence, local optimisation, and accidental coupling between teams

High-Leverage Technical Leadership

  • Drive ambiguous, high-impact technical work that does not fit neatly within a single team’s ownership
  • Unblock multiple teams by resolving difficult technical trade-offs and clarifying architectural direction
  • Act as a senior technical advisor to engineering leadership for the platform pillar
  • Maintain enough hands-on engagement to validate major design choices, guide implementation, and retain technical credibility
  • Improve the effectiveness of teams through strong technical writing, design reviews, and decision-making frameworks

Mentoring & Capability Building

  • Mentor Staff and Senior engineers, helping grow technical leadership capability across the pillar
  • Raise the overall technical bar through architecture reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing
  • Help shape how technical leadership operates across multiple teams by modelling strong judgement, influence, and clarity
  • Partner with managers and senior leaders to identify capability gaps and strengthen the organisation’s ability to execute complex technical work

About You (Skills / Qualifications)

  • Demonstrated experience designing and evolving large-scale Kubernetes-native platform systems across multiple teams or domains
  • Proven ability to define and lead architecture across a broad platform area with significant ambiguity and long time horizons
  • Strong track record of creating leverage through standards, roadmaps, shared abstractions, and cross-team technical leadership
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes internals, control plane architecture, and production operational design
  • Experience leading major technical initiatives that span multiple teams and require sustained influence without formal authority
  • Strong judgement in balancing immediate delivery, platform consistency, operational realities, and long-term maintainability
  • Demonstrated ability to identify systemic technical risks and address them through architecture, standards, and technical alignment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to drive adoption of technical direction across a broad engineering area
  • Strong mentoring track record, particularly in helping senior engineers grow into Staff-level technical leaders
  • Strong grounding in Linux, networking, and infrastructure fundamentals, including sufficient depth to reason through complex cross-layer behaviour
  • Working knowledge of GPU-backed platforms or AI workload constraints is highly valuable

The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.

Salary Range

$230,000—$320,000 USD

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