Senior Developer Experience Engineer-AI Infrastructure Operations

Role description

Role Overview

This is a senior engineering role for someone who sets the bar for how Nscale ships software and then pulls the rest of the team up to it. You'll own the hardest problems on the delivery platform: the GitHub, GitOps, and change automation every engineer depends on, and the design decisions that decide whether it holds up as the company grows.

What You Will Do

Own the delivery platform end to end, from pull request to production. Set the roadmap and the direction, not just respond to what breaks or what gets requested.

Why It Might Be a Fit

6-10 years in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or software engineering, with real ownership of CI/CD or deployment systems used by many engineering teams.

Requirements

• 6-10 years in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or software engineering
• Strong software engineering skills (Python, Go, or similar)
• Deep experience with GitHub at organization scale and with GitOps tooling (Argo CD, Flux, or both) on Kubernetes
• Experience automating change management or release approval against a ticketing system, ideally Jira Service Management
• Solid command of Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and distributed systems
• Experience with secrets and identity in pipelines (Vault, short-lived credentials, OIDC) and with artifact and supply chain management
• Ownership of a build and release system at scale, including build performance, reproducibility, cache strategy, release versioning and promotion, runner fleet capacity and cost, and artifact registry design
• Experience designing and running an internal developer platform, including a developer portal (Backstage or similar), and driving adoption across engineering teams
• Reliability practices you put in place that outlasted you: SLOs, observability and alerting, incident process, and on-call that people can actually live with
• A track record of treating developers as customers: surveys, adoption metrics, documentation, and deprecating tools that no longer earn their place
• A track record as a trusted senior voice in design reviews and incidents, able to make the call under pressure
• A habit of raising the people around you without being asked to

Benefits

• Competitive base plus equity
• Real ownership from the start, and a direct hand in how software reaches production across the platform
• Flexibility that treats you as an adult; we care that the work gets done, and we trust you to shape your day