Director, Deployment Engineering (Network & Compute)

Location: AMER; requires travel of up to 50% to offices, data centers, partner locations, and customer sites.

Salary: $240,000–$320,000 USD base salary, with potential bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.

Company

Nscale provides high-performance, scalable GPU cloud infrastructure for AI startups and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Lead, develop, and scale the engineering organization responsible for core network and compute platforms.
• Define technical strategy for data center networking, GPU fabrics, compute systems, platform services, and automation.
• Execute multi-quarter initiatives improving deployment velocity, infrastructure reliability, validation, observability, and operational scalability.
• Partner with product, engineering, vendors, hardware manufacturers, data center operators, and customers to deliver infrastructure at scale.
• Provide technical leadership during critical infrastructure incidents and complex escalations.
• Build organizational capability through hiring, coaching, succession planning, and developing engineering leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience leading network, compute, infrastructure, or platform engineering teams.
• Experience in a large cloud provider, internet service provider, hyperscale data center, or similarly complex infrastructure environment.
• Experience leading network or compute operations teams in business-critical production environments.
• Experience building and scaling engineering teams and delivering complex, multi-quarter infrastructure initiatives.
• Strong understanding of large-scale data center, cloud, network, or compute architecture, with willingness to travel up to 50%.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-performance GPU networks using InfiniBand or Ethernet-based RoCE.
• Knowledge of BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, DHCP, VPN, SSL, VXLAN, and EVPN.
• Experience with server and GPU hardware, infrastructure automation, network validation, monitoring, observability, telemetry, and data center design.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, fault tolerance, high availability, storage, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience influencing product roadmaps and aligning senior stakeholders across engineering, product, operations, vendors, and customers.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an environment focused on urgency, ownership, accountability, practical problem-solving, and engineering excellence.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible paid time off and parental leave.
• Retirement plan participation.
• Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.