Senior Staff Cloud Native Software 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.
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 define and evolve the technical roadmap for a broad cloud-native platform pillar, lead major architectural initiatives across teams, set pillar-wide standards, advise engineering leadership, stay hands-on enough to validate designs, and mentor Staff and Senior engineers.
Requirements
- Experience designing large-scale Kubernetes-native platform systems across teams
- Proven ability to lead architecture across a broad platform area
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes internals, and control plane architecture
- Experience leading cross-team initiatives through influence
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong mentoring track record
- Strong grounding in Linux, networking, and infrastructure fundamentals
- Working knowledge of GPU-backed platforms or AI workload constraints is highly valuable
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the technical roadmap for a platform pillar
- Lead major architectural initiatives across subsystems and services
- Identify systemic weaknesses, duplication, and architectural drift and drive corrective action
- Define pillar-wide standards for controllers, operators, APIs, CRDs, versioning, and observability
- Create shared abstractions, reference implementations, and guardrails
- Review designs across the pillar
- Act as senior technical advisor to engineering leadership
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan participation
- Bonus, equity, and/or commission eligibility
