Principal Observability Platform Engineer
Nscale is a London-based, full-stack AI cloud and infrastructure company that provides GPU compute, managed AI services, orchestration software, data centers, and power infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Nscale
Nscale builds and operates vertically integrated AI infrastructure spanning software, GPU compute, networking, storage, purpose-built data centers, and power. Its active cloud platform offers self-service inference endpoints, fine-tuning, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, virtual machines, and GPU clusters.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the technical strategy and architecture for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting at scale. You will set platform standards, design ingestion and retention patterns, identify systemic gaps, improve incident learning, evaluate tooling, and mentor engineers. You will build and operate scalable observability systems using infrastructure as code.
Requirements
- 8+ years in SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or observability roles
- Experience operating observability infrastructure at scale
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar
- Experience with Kubernetes at scale
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent
Responsibilities
- Own observability strategy and architecture for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
- Drive decisions on tooling, data models, ingestion, retention, and cardinality
- Design platforms that expose failures and enable fast diagnosis
- Partner with SRE, infrastructure, and AI/ML teams
- Define observability standards and patterns
- Mentor and technically develop observability engineers
- Lead incident postmortems and implement durable platform improvements
- Evaluate, introduce, and retire observability tooling
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan participation