Principal Software Engineer (Fleet Management)

Location: AMER

Base salary: $240,000–$400,000 USD per year, excluding potential bonus, equity, and commission.

Company

Nscale is building a vertically integrated GenAI cloud spanning sustainable data centers, AI infrastructure, and enterprise applications.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, technical roadmap, and delivery of Fleet Manager workflow automation systems.
• Build device provisioning, enrolment, validation, burn-in testing, GPU health monitoring, and remediation workflows at scale.
• Design workflow orchestration for GPU nodes and network switches across their full lifecycle.
• Establish standards for reliability, observability, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, incident response, and operational excellence.
• Integrate DCIMs, NetBox, OpenStack, MAAS, Ironic, IPMI, and bare-metal APIs.
• Mentor senior engineers and partner with Infrastructure, Platform, and SRE teams on scalable automation.

Requirements

• 12–15+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong Python fundamentals and experience leading complex, multi-service distributed systems.
• Proven ownership of technical roadmaps and delivery of large-scale automation systems from ambiguous requirements to production.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Strong mentorship, communication, and technical leadership skills.
• Regular use of AI development tools such as Claude or Cursor.

Nice to have

• Experience with Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, or similar workflow orchestration tools.
• Experience with DCIMs, NetBox, OpenStack, ERP systems, MAAS, Ironic, IPMI, PXE boot, or network automation.
• GPU infrastructure, HPC, datacenter topology, InfiniBand, RoCE, or hardware lifecycle automation experience.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS, and GCP.
• Open-source contributions in infrastructure automation or cloud-native tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture centered on open collaboration, ownership, and engineering excellence.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible paid time off and parental leave.
• Retirement plan participation.
• Potential bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.