Senior Software Engineer - Fleet Management

<h2>About Nscale</h2> <p>Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers.&nbsp; Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.</p> <p>At Nscale, our Software engineers form the backbone of our product offering. We build state of the art AI products allowing our clients to move quickly in an increasingly competitive digital landscape.</p> <p>We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future</p> <h2>About the Role</h2> <p>We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build our Fleet Manager platform — the workflow automation system that provisions, tests, and remediates GPU nodes and network switches at scale.</p> <p>You'll build foundational Python-based automation systems that manage the entire lifecycle of our compute infrastructure: device enrolment, burn-in testing, network configuration, GPU health monitoring, and self-healing capabilities. This role is for someone obsessed with distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement.</p> <h2>What you'll do</h2> <ul> <li>Build workflow automation systems for GPU node and network switch lifecycle management at scale</li> <li>Design foundational platform components with established software patterns that others build on</li> <li>Implement device provisioning, burn-in testing, network configuration, and hardware health validation workflows</li> <li>Integrate with datacenter infrastructure management systems, cloud orchestration platforms, and bare metal provisioning tools</li> <li>Build distributed workflow orchestration systems to coordinate complex automation tasks across the fleet</li> <li>Drive technical strategy for reliability, observability, incident response, and operational excellence</li> <li>Partner with Infrastructure, Platform, and SRE teams to automate hardware lifecycle operations</li> <li>Use AI tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining architectural coherence</li> </ul> <h2>About You</h2> <ul> <li>You have 5+ years software engineering experience building and operating production systems, with focus on infrastructure automation or workflow tooling</li> <li>Strong proficiency in Python (Fleet Manager is built entirely in Python)</li> <li>You are driven by building distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement</li> <li>Technical expertise: quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems</li> <li>You use AI tools like Claude or Cursor as a core part of your development workflow as a fundamental multiplier of what you can build</li> <li>You have delivered automation systems from ambiguous requirements to operational systems in production, with hands-on day 2 operations experience (monitoring, incident response, performance optimisation)</li> <li>Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-agency environment</li> <li>Excellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders, both internally and externally</li> </ul> <h2>Nice to have</h2> <ul> <li>Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, or similar</li> <li>Hands-on experience with infrastructure tooling: DCIMs, NetBox, OpenStack, or ERP systems</li> <li>Bare metal provisioning and automation: MAAS, Ironic, IPMI, PXE boot, or network automation</li> <li>Experience building hardware lifecycle automation: provisioning, validation, testing, or remediation workflows</li> <li>GPU infrastructure experience: health monitoring, burn-in testing, or cluster management</li> <li>HPC and networking: datacenter topology, high-performance interconnects (InfiniBand, RoCE)</li> <li>Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), AWS, and GCP</li> <li>Open-source contributions in infrastructure automation or cloud-native tooling</li> </ul> <div> <div class="job__description body"> <div> <h2><strong>What We Can Offer You</strong></h2> <p>At Nscale, you'll find a&nbsp;<strong>collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment</strong>&nbsp;where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.</p> <ul> <li>Highly&nbsp;<strong>competitive package</strong>&nbsp;(base + equity) with&nbsp;<strong>reviews every 12 months</strong>. 🚀</li> <li>Join the&nbsp;<strong>fastest-growing tech startup</strong>, your chance to push boundaries, collaborate with brilliant minds, and make your mark on cutting-edge AI. ✨</li> <li>Expect a&nbsp;<strong>dynamic progression plan</strong>&nbsp;tailored to your ambitions. Grow by trying new things, leading, challenging the status quo, and owning your impact, always with our full support.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Human-First Flexibility:</strong>&nbsp;We treat you as&nbsp;<strong>humans first</strong>. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.</li> </ul> <p>Join our&nbsp;<strong>thriving remote-first team</strong>. Geography is no barrier to impact or connection. We build seamless virtual collaboration, empowering you, wherever you work.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Equal Opportunities Statement</strong></p> <p>At NScale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities.&nbsp; We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.</p> <p>If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.</p> </div> <div> <p><em>For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee &amp; Candidate Privacy Notice:&nbsp;<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QK5Yg04WHD9K9IAtJgQWubJZC9oLvatK/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QK5Yg04WHD9K9IAtJgQWubJZC9oLvatK/view?usp%3Dsharing&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1765375172804000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Ncte4rmlGl8OKuFuDgDtx">Here.</a></em></p> </div> </div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><em>For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee &amp; Candidate Privacy Notice:&nbsp;<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QK5Yg04WHD9K9IAtJgQWubJZC9oLvatK/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QK5Yg04WHD9K9IAtJgQWubJZC9oLvatK/view?usp%3Dsharing&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1765375172804000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Ncte4rmlGl8OKuFuDgDtx">Here.</a></em></p></div>