Software Engineer
Posted 6 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Principal Software Engineer - Fleet Management”
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- Expected experience
- 12–15 yrs
- Management level
- People management
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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