Senior Manager, Developer Platforms
About The Position
Nscale is hiring a Senior Manager, Developer Platforms to own how its engineers ship software, including the developer toolchain, CI/CD, code quality standards, AI coding tools, and related performance metrics. Reporting to the SVP of Corporate Engineering, this hands-on role partners across engineering, security, and compliance to establish tooling and governance from scratch. The role will also develop the business case for a Developer Platforms team and hire and lead that team as its scope grows. The position enables engineering teams to work quickly while establishing access controls and operating guardrails for agentic tools that address security and audit risks. It owns developer tooling, standards, AI-tool adoption and governance, and measurement of software delivery, developer experience, and AI-tool usage.
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 tools 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 using 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
- Competitive compensation package including base salary, bonus, and equity.
- Performance reviews every 12 months.
- Flexible workplace with autonomy to shape the workday.
- Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.
- Potential competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.
- Dynamic progression plan and opportunities to lead cross-functional initiatives and shape capital strategy.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
