Senior Delivery Platform Engineer — GitOps & CI/CD

Nscale; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base + equity

Real ownership from the start

Flexible work model

Job summary

Nscale is hiring a Senior Developer Experience Engineer to own the delivery platform end-to-end for our multi-city US operations. You will define the roadmap, establish paved paths, and own the internal developer portal (Backstage) as the gate to the platform.

You’ll lead GitOps decisions with Argo CD/Flux on Kubernetes and shape CI/CD across teams. You will also own the build and release stack, test environments, and change-management automation integrated with Jira Service Management, driving

Qualifications

• This role requires 6–10 years in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or software engineering with ownership of CI/CD or deployment systems.
• Strong software skills in Python, Go, or similar, building reusable tools over scripts.
• Deep GitHub at org scale experience and solid GitOps with Argo CD or Flux on Kubernetes.
• Experience automating change management and release approvals, ideally with Jira Service Management.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery platform end to end from PR to production, setting roadmap and direction.
• Define paved road, templates, and deployment standards to keep shipping safe and easy.
• Own the internal developer portal (Backstage or equivalent) with service catalog and docs.
• Set technical direction for GitOps across Argo CD and Flux, multi-cluster promotion and drift detection.
• Own build/release layer, including caches, image builds, registries, and versioning.
• Maintain local/ephemeral test environments (LocalStack) for cloud API testing.
• Lead change management automation and align with Security/audit via pipelines.
• Define SLOs/SLIs for delivery platform and use data to plan next features.
• Grow the team; mentor on design reviews, pairing, and incident debriefs.
• Drive architecture decisions early to ensure deployability and rollback considerations.

Skills

Platform ownership

CI/CD

Python/Go

GitOps

Leadership in design reviews

Automation

SRE/DevOps

Tools

GitHub

Argo CD

Flux

Kubernetes

Backstage

Jira Service Management

CI tooling

Job description

Nscale is hiring a Senior Developer Experience Engineer to own the delivery platform end-to-end for our multi-city US operations. You will define the roadmap, establish paved paths, and own the internal developer portal (Backstage) as the gate to the platform.

You’ll lead GitOps decisions with Argo CD/Flux on Kubernetes and shape CI/CD across teams. You will also own the build and release stack, test environments, and change-management automation integrated with Jira Service Management, driving