Senior Staff Cloud Native Platform Architect

Nscale; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer to define long-term platform direction and ensure architectural coherence across multiple teams in our cloud-native stack. You will drive multi-year roadmaps, influence architectural patterns, and establish guardrails that improve consistency, scalability, and reliability in production.

This role combines hands-on software depth with strategic leadership: you will mentor engineers, contribute to design reviews, and translate

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing large-scale Kubernetes-native platforms.
• Ability to lead architecture across ambiguous, long-horizon programs.
• Strong communication and mentoring of senior engineers.
• Balance delivery pace with platform consistency and maintainability.
• Influence without formal authority across multiple teams.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems and control plane internals.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve multi-year pillar roadmap and architecture.
• Lead cross-team architectural initiatives across subsystems.
• Set pillar-wide standards for API, CRD, and deployment patterns.
• Drive governance and guardrails to improve consistency.
• Mentor Staff/Senior engineers and develop leadership across teams.
• Provide hands-on validation of major design choices.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Platform architecture

Cross-team leadership

Technical writing

Mentoring

Linux fundamentals

Networking basics

GPU/AI workloads

Job description

Nscale is seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Native Software Engineer to define long-term platform direction and ensure architectural coherence across multiple teams in our cloud-native stack. You will drive multi-year roadmaps, influence architectural patterns, and establish guardrails that improve consistency, scalability, and reliability in production.

This role combines hands-on software depth with strategic leadership: you will mentor engineers, contribute to design reviews, and translate