Principal Software Engineer - Fleet Management

About Nscale

Nscale is building a vertically integrated GenAI cloud from sustainable data centers to advanced AI infrastructure and enterprise applications. Our culture values open collaboration, ownership, and excellence.

About the Role

We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical development of our Fleet Manager platform - the workflow automation system that provisions, tests, and remediates GPU nodes and network switches at scale.

As technical lead, you'll own the architecture and delivery of foundational Python-based automation systems that manage the entire lifecycle of our compute infrastructure: device enrolment, burn-in testing, network configuration, GPU health monitoring, and self-healing capabilities. You'll mentor a team of senior engineers, set technical direction, and drive engineering excellence while remaining hands-on with critical systems.

What you'll do

Lead technical architecture and roadmap for Fleet Manager's workflow automation systems

Own end-to-end delivery of device provisioning, validation, testing, and remediation workflows at scale

Design and build workflow orchestration systems for GPU node and network switch lifecycle management

Establish engineering standards for reliability, observability, and operational excellence across all Fleet Manager services

Mentor and raise the bar for a team of senior engineers through design reviews, technical leadership, and hands-on collaboration

Drive architecture decisions balancing automation complexity, reliability, and maintainability

Integrate with infrastructure tooling: DCIMs, NetBox, OpenStack, bare metal APIs (MAAS, Ironic, IPMI)

Partner with Infrastructure, Platform, and SRE teams to translate operational needs into robust, scalable automation

Build production-grade Python systems for hardware lifecycle automation, leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery

About You

You have 12-15+ years software engineering experience building and operating production systems, with proven technical leadership in infrastructure automation or workflow tooling

Strong Python engineering fundamentals with experience leading complex, multi-service distributed systems

You are driven by building distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement

Technical expertise: quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems

Track record of owning technical roadmaps and delivering large-scale automation systems from ambiguous requirements to production

You use AI tools like Claude or Cursor as a core part of your development workflow - as a fundamental multiplier of what you can build

Deep understanding of operational excellence: SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and production reliability

Strong mentorship skills with ability to develop high-performing engineering teams

Excellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders, both internally and externally

Strong candidates will have

Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, or similar

Hands-on experience with infrastructure tooling: DCIMs, NetBox, OpenStack, or ERP systems

Bare metal provisioning and automation: MAAS, Ironic, IPMI, PXE boot, or network automation

Experience building hardware lifecycle automation: provisioning, validation, testing, or remediation workflows

GPU infrastructure experience: health monitoring, burn-in testing, or cluster management

HPC and networking: datacenter topology, high-performance interconnects (InfiniBand, RoCE)

Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), AWS, and GCP

Track record of 1+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or technical teams

Open-source contributions in infrastructure automation or cloud-native tooling

The 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. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.

Salary Range$240,000—$400,000 USD

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