# 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: $220K–290K
- Posted: 2026-11-09
- Skills: Kubernetes
- Apply: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/nscaleoperationsukltd/jobs/5031299101

## Description

About the Role (Job Purpose) 
 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. This role operates beyond the boundaries of a single team, shaping how multiple teams build and evolve Kubernetes-native control plane software across a platform area.
 This role combines deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You will define domain direction, make key architectural decisions, and create leverage through shared patterns, standards, and technical guidance. You will remain close enough to implementation to validate designs, unblock delivery, and ensure that technical direction is grounded in operational reality.
 As a Staff engineer, you are expected to increase the effectiveness of multiple engineers and teams. 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.
 What You’ll be Doing (Responsibilities) 
 Domain Architecture & Technical Direction 
• Own and evolve the technical direction for a defined cloud-native platform domain, such as control plane orchestration, infrastructure lifecycle, platform APIs, or workload management
• Design and review Kubernetes-native systems that span multiple components or teams within that domain
• Make architectural decisions that balance delivery needs, operational realities, and long-term maintainability
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