Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Houston, San Francisco, or Seattle, United States

Salary: $220,000–$265,000 USD per year, plus potential bonus, equity, and/or commission.

Company

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

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-native controllers, operators, custom resources, admission webhooks, and client-go tooling.
• Extend Kubernetes control-plane capabilities for AI workloads, including network policy controllers, CNI and service-mesh integrations, and scheduling extensions.
• Own major software components end to end and define their design, deployment, operation, and rollout strategy.
• Build observability foundations using metrics, structured events, tracing, and Kubernetes status reporting.
• Develop self-healing systems and operational automation that reduce manual intervention and configuration drift.
• Lead technical design, code reviews, reusable platform patterns, and mentoring across engineering teams.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of production-level software development experience.
• Deep hands-on experience building and operating Kubernetes-native software, including controllers, operators, CRDs, or admission webhooks.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals, including the API server, informer and lister patterns, reconciliation loops, and the object model.
• Strong networking fundamentals covering CNI, service mesh, kube-proxy or eBPF datapaths, DNS, and load balancing.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language, with experience shipping well-tested, production-quality code at scale.
• Experience with metrics, tracing, and structured logging, plus the ability to lead technical design and mentor engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with or strong interest in GPU-backed infrastructure and AI workload patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture centered on innovation, ownership, accountability, openness, and transparency.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible paid time off and parental leave.
• Retirement plan participation.