Principal Software Engineer - Fleet Management

Nscale — United States · Remote · Staff+ · $240k - $400k/yearly

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Role description

Role Overview

We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical development of our Fleet Manager platform, a workflow automation system that provisions, tests, and remediates GPU nodes and network switches at scale. As technical lead, you'll own the architecture and delivery of foundational Python-based automation systems that manage the entire lifecycle of our compute infrastructure.

What You Will Do

Lead technical architecture and roadmap for Fleet Manager's workflow automation systems, own end-to-end delivery of device provisioning, validation, testing, and remediation workflows at scale, design and build workflow orchestration systems for GPU node and network switch lifecycle management.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You have 12-15+ years software engineering experience building and operating production systems, with proven technical leadership in infrastructure automation or workflow tooling. You are driven by building distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • 12-15+ years software engineering experience building and operating production systems
  • Strong Python engineering fundamentals with experience leading complex, multi-service distributed systems
  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, or similar
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure tooling: DCIMs, NetBox, OpenStack, or ERP systems
  • Bare metal provisioning and automation: MAAS, Ironic, IPMI, PXE boot, or network automation
  • Experience building hardware lifecycle automation: provisioning, validation, testing, or remediation workflows
  • GPU infrastructure experience: health monitoring, burn-in testing, or cluster management
  • HPC and networking: datacenter topology, high-performance interconnects (InfiniBand, RoCE)
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), AWS, and GCP
  • Track record of 1+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or technical teams
  • Open-source contributions in infrastructure automation or cloud-native tooling

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Retirement plan participation

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