Senior Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer

Role description

Role Overview

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.

What You Will Do

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, and ensure architectural decisions made across teams contribute to a coherent long-term platform direction.

Why It Might Be a Fit

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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan participation