# Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer

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 evolv

- **Id**: 3985057
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nscale-staff-cloud-native-software-engineer-3>
- **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**: 2026-11-09T18:06:54Z
- **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**: 5032
- **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**: 220000
- **Max**: 290000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 290000

## 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**: 2026-11-09T22:18:11Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 290000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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