Head of GPU Fleet Automation & Infrastructure Engineering

nscaleoperationsukltd; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale, a Seattle-based GPU cloud for AI, is hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Fleet Manager team that provisions, tests, and remediates GPU nodes and network switches at scale. You will own delivery, people leadership, and end-to-end lifecycle of our compute infrastructure.

You’ll stay hands-on with design reviews, incident deep-dives, and coaching, partnering with Principal and Staff engineers. Strong background in Python & distributed systems is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years in people management.
• Strong Python & distributed systems background.
• Experience delivering complex, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, and develop software engineers who thrive in a high-autonomy, high-accountability environment.
• Coach performance and career growth, set clear expectations, and handle performance management directly and fairly.
• Own on-call health, handover quality, and a sustainable operational load for the team.
• Turn the Fleet Manager roadmap into executable plans: drive prioritization, manage dependencies and risks, and ship on commitments.
• Run the team's planning, review, and escalation mechanisms, and remove blockers before they become delays.
• Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders - including when the news is bad.
• Uphold engineering standards: code review, testing, CI/CD, incident response, and postmortems that produce durable fixes.
• Own the operational health of the team's services: SLOs, observability, alerting, and incident management.
• Partner with Principal and Staff engineers on architecture and design decisions that balance automation complexity, reliability, and maintainability.
• Stay hands-on where it counts: review designs and code, dig into incidents, and write code where it unblocks the team.
• Collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, Platform, SRE, and UI/UX to capture requirements early, align on interfaces, and ship integrations that meet operator needs.
• Champion AI tools like Claude and Cursor across the team as a fundamental multiplier of what your engineers can build.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

People leadership

Code reviews

Workflow orchestration

Technical architecture

Communication

Tools

MAAS

Ironic

NetBox

DCIMs

OpenStack

CI/CD tools

Job description

Nscale, a Seattle-based GPU cloud for AI, is hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Fleet Manager team that provisions, tests, and remediates GPU nodes and network switches at scale. You will own delivery, people leadership, and end-to-end lifecycle of our compute infrastructure.

You’ll stay hands-on with design reviews, incident deep-dives, and coaching, partnering with Principal and Staff engineers. Strong background in Python & distributed systems is essential.