# Principal Software Engineer - Fleet Management at Nscale

Principal Software Engineer - Fleet Management at Nscale in AMER. Remote. Posted October 6, 2026.

- Company: Nscale
- Location: AMER
- Workplace: Remote
- Experience: 12+ years
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/nscaleoperationsukltd/jobs/4998748101
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/principal-software-engineer-fleet-management-nscale-y1v64r

## Requirements

- You have 12-15+ years software engineering experience building and operating production systems, with proven technical leadership in infrastructure automation or workflow tooling
- Strong Python engineering fundamentals with experience leading complex, multi-service distributed systems
- You are driven by building distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement
- Technical expertise: quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems
- Track record of owning technical roadmaps and delivering large-scale automation systems from ambiguous requirements to production
- 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
- Deep understanding of operational excellence: SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and production reliability
- Strong mentorship skills with ability to develop high-performing engineering teams
- Excellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders, both internally and externally

## Description

**About Nscale**

Nscale is building a vertically integrated GenAI cloud from sustainable data centers to advanced AI infrastructure and enterprise applications. Our culture values open collaboration, ownership, and excellence.

### **About the Role**

We're hiring a **Principal Software Engineer** to lead the technical development of our Fleet Manager platform - the 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: device enrolment, burn-in testing, network configuration, GPU health monitoring, and self-healing capabilities. You'll mentor a team of senior engineers, set technical direction, and drive engineering excellence while remaining hands-on with critical systems.

### **What you'll 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

- Establish engineering standards for reliability, observability, and operational excellence across all Fleet Manager services

- Mentor and raise the bar for a team of senior engineers through design reviews, technical leadership, and hands-on collaboration

- Drive architecture decisions balancing automation complexity, reliability, and maintainability

- Integrate with infrastructure tooling: DCIMs, NetBox, OpenStack, bare metal APIs (MAAS, Ironic, IPMI)

- Partner with Infrastructure, Platform, and SRE teams to translate operational needs into robust, scalable automation

- Build production-grade Python systems for hardware lifecycle automation, leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery

### **About You**

- You have 12-15+ years software engineering experience building and operating production systems, with proven technical leadership in infrastructure automation or workflow tooling

- Strong Python engineering fundamentals with experience leading complex, multi-service distributed systems

- You are driven by building distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement

- Technical expertise: quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems

- Track record of owning technical roadmaps and delivering large-scale automation systems from ambiguous requirements to production

- 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

- Deep understanding of operational excellence: SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and production reliability

- Strong mentorship skills with ability to develop high-performing engineering teams

- Excellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders, both internally and externally

### **Strong candidates will have**

- 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

The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.
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