Senior Manager, Developer Platforms

Nscale • San Francisco, NY

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About The Position

Nscale is hiring a Senior Manager, Developer Platforms to own how its engineers ship software. The role is responsible for the developer toolchain, CI/CD, code quality standards, AI coding tools, and the metrics used to measure their impact. Reporting to the SVP of Corporate Engineering, this person will work across engineering teams and partner with engineering, security, and compliance.

This is a hands-on role focused on establishing tooling and governance from scratch, then building the business case to hire and lead a Developer Platforms team as the scope grows. The role will equip engineers to work efficiently while setting access controls and operating guardrails for agentic tools to manage security and audit risks.

The position also leads adoption and governance of AI coding agents and related review and testing tools, establishes standards for software delivery and testing, and uses delivery, developer experience, and AI-usage metrics to guide priorities.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or developer-productivity engineering, including experience leading people.
• Experience owning CI/CD and source control for a sizable engineering organization while remaining hands-on.
• Experience rolling out and governing AI coding tools for a team or company.
• Working knowledge of access control, audit logging, and compliance frameworks, with the ability to translate security and compliance requirements into practical engineering guardrails.
• Experience raising code quality and testing standards across multiple teams.
• Experience building something from scratch without an existing team or playbook and working through an ambiguous mandate.
• Ability to build effective partnerships across engineering, security, and compliance and make progress through influence as well as authority.

Responsibilities

• Own the developer toolchain, including source control, CI/CD, build and test infrastructure, development environments, and integrations with issue-tracking and observability tools.
• Set code review, testing, and CI standards across engineering, and build supporting test infrastructure.
• Manage developer tooling vendors and spend.
• Lead adoption of AI coding agents and AI review and testing tools, adapting tooling and policies to how engineers work.
• Design and implement access and governance for agentic coding tools, including repository and environment access, human approval requirements, action logging and attribution, and alignment with compliance frameworks.
• Define and enforce guardrails for autonomous agents in production-adjacent systems, including least-privilege access, audit trails, rollback paths, and incident response for unintended actions.
• Track software delivery, developer experience, and AI usage through measures such as DORA metrics and developer surveys, and use the results to set priorities.
• Build the business case for a Developer Platforms team as the scope grows.
• Hire and lead the Developer Platforms team.

Benefits

• Highly competitive US compensation package with base salary, bonus, and equity.
• Performance reviews every 12 months.
• Dynamic progression plan tailored to the employee's ambitions.
• Flexible workplace with autonomy to shape the workday.
• Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.
• Potential benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed