About Nscale Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future

About The Role The Principal Cloud Native Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for the long-term integrity, coherence, and evolution of Nscale’s cloud-native platform. This role extends beyond individual systems, focusing on architecture, standards, and engineering excellence as the organisation and platform scale.

The role combines deep hands-on engineering with strong architectural stewardship. You will act as a technical escalation point, a mentor to senior engineers, and a trusted advisor to engineering leadership, helping shape the direction of the platform and the practices used to build it.

This role requires Principal engineers to be able to accelerate the delivery of Nscale’s platform service offerings, marrying innovation with efficiency via experience in technical direction.

What You'll Be Doing (Responsibilities) Platform Architecture & System Design

• Own and evolve the core platform architecture across multiple subsystems
• Design and review complex, multi-controller Kubernetes-native systems
• Maintain a strong bias toward simplicity, explicitness, and long-term maintainability
• Act as a technical escalation point for the most complex platform problems

Standardisation & Technical Governance

Mentoring & Capability Building

Cross-Team Influence

• Align platform engineering decisions with:

• SRE operational requirements

• Infrastructure and hardware roadmaps

• Product and customer needs

About You (Skills / Qualifications)

• Demonstrated experience designing and building Kubernetes-native systems, including custom controllers, operators, CRDs, and reconciliation logic that runs reliably in production.

What We Can Offer You At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.

• Highly competitive package (base + equity) with reviews every 12 months. 🚀
• Join the fastest-growing tech startup, your chance to push boundaries, collaborate with brilliant minds, and make your mark on cutting-edge AI. ✨
• Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by trying new things, leading, challenging the status quo, and owning your impact, always with our full support.
• Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.

Join our thriving remote-first team. Geography is no barrier to impact or connection. We build seamless virtual collaboration, empowering you, wherever you work. Equal Opportunities Statement We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.

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