# Senior Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer at Nscale

- Company: Nscale
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: New York; San Francisco
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: DevOps & SRE
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $230K–320K
- Posted: 2026-11-09
- Skills: Kubernetes
- Apply: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/nscaleoperationsukltd/jobs/5031319101

## Description

About the Role (Job Purpose) 
 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.
 This role combines hands-on technical depth with broad architectural leadership. You will define multi-year direction across a platform pillar, lead major cross-team initiatives, and establish standards and engineering practices that are adopted widely. You will work through influence rather than formal authority, aligning teams around a common direction while remaining grounded in the realities of implementation and operations.
 As a Senior Staff engineer, you are expected to solve ambiguous, high-leverage problems that cut across systems and teams. You will identify systemic technical risks, reduce fragmentation, and help multiple teams make better decisions by creating clarity, shared patterns, and a stronger architectural foundation.
 What You’ll be Doing (Responsibilities) 
 Pillar Architecture & Roadmap 
• 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
• Ensure architectural decisions made across teams contribute to a coherent long-term platform direction
• Identify systemic weaknesses, duplication, and architectu

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