# Senior Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer

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 &

- **Id**: 3985056
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nscale-senior-staff-cloud-native-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T18:20:35Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T21:17:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5506
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Centers & Colocation, AI Compute & Inference

## Company

- **Id**: 48155
- **Name**: Nscale
- **Domain**: nscale.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nscale>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 27
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.407
- **Repost share**: 0.037
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 56
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 230000
- **Max**: 320000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 320000

## Technologies

- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T21:17:20Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 10; Filings 12m: 10

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 56
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T22:19:09Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 320000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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