Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer

Role description

Role Overview

The Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for the architecture, coherence, and evolution of a defined domain within Nscale’s cloud-native platform.

What You Will Do

Design and review Kubernetes-native systems, make architectural decisions, and create leverage through shared patterns, standards, and technical guidance.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will take ownership of ambiguous technical problems within your domain, drive alignment across team boundaries, and help ensure that the systems built by different teams remain coherent, operable, and maintainable as the platform grows.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing and building Kubernetes-native systems
• Strong track record of writing maintainable, testable, and resilient Go for long-lived distributed or control plane systems
• Proven ability to define technical direction across a domain that spans multiple engineers or teams
• Experience driving cross-team architecture and resolving ambiguity in interfaces, ownership, and design
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes control plane patterns, distributed systems failure modes, and operational trade-offs
• Experience creating engineering leverage through standards, reusable components, technical guidance, and architectural clarity
• Strong judgement in balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align multiple teams around a coherent technical direction
• Solid grounding in Linux, networking, and infrastructure fundamentals sufficient to debug cross-layer issues
• Experience mentoring other engineers and raising the technical quality of work beyond your immediate team

Benefits

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