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We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.\nWe thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.\nAbout the Role\nWe're hiring a Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer to build, operate, and improve the cloud-native software integrations that connect AI applications and networking components at scale.\nIn this software engineering role, you'll work on shared Kubernetes-based platforms, deployment patterns, observability foundations, infrastructure architecture, and operational tooling that help internal teams run services safely and efficiently on GPU-backed infrastructure. You'll partner closely with platform engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure capabilities meet real developer and operational needs.\nThis role is important to the reliability, scalability, and usability of Nscale's software integrations. As a Staff engineer, you'll take ownership of significant components and set technical direction across teams, deliver complex technical work independently, and raise the quality of operations and engineering through practical improvements, sound technical judgement, and mentoring.\nWhat You’ll Do\nCloud Native Software Engineering\nDesign, build, and operate Kubernetes-native software - controllers, operators, custom resources (CRDs), and admission webhooks - that connects AI applications with core networking components on GPU-backed infrastructure.\nExtend Kubernetes control-plane capabilities to support AI workload requirements, including network policy controllers, CNI/service-mesh integrations, and resource/scheduling extensions.\nOwn significant components end-to-end and set the technical direction for how they're designed, deployed, and operated across the team.\nBuild reconciliation loops, informers, and client-go-based tooling that keep infrastructure state consistent between the API server, networking systems, and AI runtime components.\nDevelop operational tooling and automation that make Kubernetes-native services easier for internal teams to deploy, run, and support.\nInfrastructure Architecture, Reliability & Observability\nDrive infrastructure architecture decisions around how AI applications and networking components integrate across the platform, weighing trade-offs at a cross-team level.\nBuild observability foundations for controller and operator software - metrics, structured events, tracing, and status reporting surfaced through the Kubernetes API and platform dashboards.\nDesign systems that degrade gracefully and self-heal, using controller patterns (reconciliation, backoff, status conditions) to reduce manual intervention.\nDebug and resolve complex issues spanning the Kubernetes control plane, networking (CNI, service mesh, kube-proxy/eBPF datapaths), and workload runtime behavior on GPU-backed infrastructure.\nDefine standards for safe rollout of controller and platform changes, including versioning, compatibility, and staged deployment.\nTeam Technical Leadership\nSet technical direction for how the team builds Kubernetes-native software, establishing patterns for controller design, CRD schema evolution, and testing strategy.\nLead design discussions and code reviews, holding a high bar for Kubernetes API conventions and idiomatic client-go usage.\nPartner with platform engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to translate real developer and operational needs into clean CRDs, APIs, and controller-managed abstractions.\nDefine reusable patterns, shared libraries, and scaffolding that let other teams build correctly on the platform without reinventing integration logic.\nMentor engineers in Kubernetes internals, controller-runtime patterns, and sound operational judgement.\nKPIs\nReliability, scalability, and usability of AI infrastructure-networking software integrations\nCorrectness and maintainability of Kubernetes controllers and operators in production\nReduction in manual operational effort and config drift across supported components\nAdoption of shared patterns/frameworks and effectiveness of observability tooling across teams\nWho You are\nAt least 8 years of experience in production-level software development.\nDeep hands-on experience building and operating Kubernetes-native software: custom controllers, operators, CRDs, or admission webhooks - using controller-runtime, client-go, or equivalent.\nStrong understanding of Kubernetes internals: the API server, informer/lister patterns, reconciliation loops, and the object model.\nStrong networking fundamentals - CNI, service mesh, kube-proxy/eBPF datapaths, DNS, load balancing - and experience building software that integrates with these systems.\nProficiency in Go (strongly preferred) or a similar language, with a track record of shipping well-tested, production-quality code at scale.\nExperience with observability practices - metrics, tracing, structured logging - built into software rather than added afterward.\nComfortable owning components independently end-to-end, from design through operation, while setting direction for adjacent teams.\nExperience with or strong interest in GPU-backed infrastructure and AI workload patterns is a plus.\nTrack record of leading technical design at a staff level and mentoring engineers through practical technical guidance.\nThe range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. 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