Senior Developer Experience Engineer-AI Infrastructure Operations

Nscale•Seattle, WA

5d•$170,000 - $265,000

About The Position

Nscale is hiring a Senior Developer Experience Engineer to own and shape the delivery platform used by its engineering teams. The role sets technical direction for the GitHub, GitOps, and change automation systems that take software from pull request to production, with the goal of helping internal developers ship quickly and safely as the company grows. The engineer will define paved roads, including golden paths, repository and workflow templates, release conventions, and deployment standards. They will own the internal developer portal, GitOps strategy across Argo CD and Flux, build and release systems, and local and ephemeral test environments. The role also involves automating change management into Jira Service Management in collaboration with Security, audit, and engineering leadership. The position sets delivery-platform SLOs and SLIs, uses adoption and developer feedback to guide improvements, mentors engineers, and contributes to design reviews and architecture decisions across Engineering. The engineer will lead significant platform incidents and drive lasting corrective changes, while earning adoption of shared tooling across teams. The role includes an on-call rotation for the delivery platform; senior team members help shape the rotation and reduce its burden over time. Nscale offers competitive base pay plus equity, reviewed every 12 months, and meaningful ownership from the start. The stated salary range is $170,000–$265,000 USD; compensation varies by skills, experience, and location, and the role may be eligible for bonus and equity.

Requirements

6–10 years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or software engineering, including ownership of CI/CD or deployment systems used by many engineering teams.
Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or a similar language, with experience building tools adopted by other engineers.
Deep experience with GitHub at organization scale, including Actions, self-hosted runners, rulesets, permissions, and governance.
Experience with GitOps tooling such as Argo CD and/or Flux on Kubernetes.
Experience automating change management or release approval against a ticketing system; Jira Service Management is preferred.
Strong command of Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
Experience with secrets and identity in pipelines, such as Vault, short-lived credentials, and OIDC, and with artifact and supply-chain management.
Ownership of a build and release system at scale, including build performance, reproducibility, cache strategy, release versioning and promotion, runner fleet capacity and cost, and artifact registry design.
Experience designing and operating an internal developer platform, including a developer portal such as Backstage or similar, and driving adoption across engineering teams.
Experience establishing reliability practices, including SLOs, observability and alerting, incident processes, and sustainable on-call practices.
Track record of treating developers as customers through surveys, adoption metrics, documentation, and deprecating tools that no longer provide value.
Track record as a trusted senior contributor in design reviews and incidents, able to make decisions under pressure.
Habit of mentoring and raising the capabilities of colleagues.
Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation for the delivery platform.

Nice To Haves

Experience with local cloud emulation such as LocalStack and ephemeral or preview environments.
Experience with policy as code such as OPA or Kyverno, Terraform automation, and software supply-chain practices such as SBOMs and image signing.
Experience with AI or GPU workloads, high-performance computing, or bare-metal environments.

Responsibilities

Own the delivery platform end to end, from pull request to production, and set its roadmap and direction.
Define golden paths, repository and workflow templates, release conventions, and deployment standards.
Own the internal developer portal, including its service catalog, software templates, documentation, and adoption and ownership data.
Set technical direction for GitOps across Argo CD and Flux, including multi-cluster promotion, drift detection, and guidance on when to use each.
Own and improve build and release tooling, remote caching, container image and base image builds, artifact registry, release versioning, and promotion.
Own local and ephemeral test environments, including LocalStack, for testing cloud APIs on laptops or in CI.
Design and lead change-management automation into Jira Service Management with Security, audit, and engineering leadership.
Set delivery-platform SLOs and SLIs, and use adoption data and developer feedback to prioritize work.
Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and incident debriefs; maintain quality and maintainability standards.
Participate early in cross-engineering design reviews and architecture decisions to incorporate deployability, rollback, and change requirements.
Lead significant delivery-platform incidents and resolve root causes, implementing changes to prevent recurrence.
Earn other teams’ adoption of shared tooling, retire old approaches, and demonstrate the results.
Participate in the delivery-platform on-call rotation and help make it lighter over time.

Benefits

Competitive base compensation plus equity, reviewed every 12 months.
The role may be eligible for bonus and equity.
Flexibility in shaping the workday, with an emphasis on completing the work and trust in employees.

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