Director, Network & Compute Platform Engineering

Nscale

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 240,000 - 320,000

Full time

10 days ago

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flexible paid time off

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Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Director of Network & Compute Engineering in Seattle to lead and scale the teams responsible for the company’s GPU cloud infrastructure. You will define technical strategy for data center networking, GPU fabrics, compute systems, and automation, partnering with product leaders to treat the platform as a product and align with business needs.

This leadership role demands deep infrastructure expertise, cross-functional judgment, and the ability to balance long-term architecture

Qualifications

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 operating within a large cloud provider, internet service provider, hyperscale data center, or similarly complex infrastructure environment.
Experience leading network or compute operations teams responsible for business-critical production environments.
Demonstrated 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.
Ability and willingness to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and scale a high-performing engineering organization responsible for Nscale’s core network and compute platforms.
Define and execute multi-quarter initiatives that improve deployment velocity, infrastructure reliability, network validation, platform quality, and operational scalability.
Establish the technical strategy for data center networking, GPU fabrics, compute systems, platform services, and supporting automation.
Partner with Product Management and engineering leaders to evolve the infrastructure platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term customer and business requirements.
Turn ambiguous, high-impact challenges—including platform scalability, vendor integration, infrastructure abstractions, and deployment consistency—into clear execution plans.
Drive alignment across teams working on complex, interdependent systems spanning networking, compute, internal platforms, infrastructure automation, and developer tooling.
Establish engineering standards for architecture, validation, observability, change management, reliability, and operational readiness.
Improve the consistency and quality of network and compute deployments through automation, testing, telemetry, and data-driven decision-making.
Provide technical and operational leadership during critical infrastructure incidents and complex escalations.
Partner with hardware manufacturers, network vendors, data center operators, and other strategic partners to deliver infrastructure at scale.
Build organizational capability through hiring, coaching, succession planning, and the development of engineering leaders.
Raise the bar for engineering quality, operational excellence, accountability, and execution across the organization.
Travel up to 50% to support infrastructure deployments, partner engagement, and operational priorities.