Senior Manager, Developer Platforms

Description

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. 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.

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.

About the Role at Nscale

We're hiring a Senior Manager, Developer Platforms to build the function that owns how Nscale's engineers ship software: the developer toolchain, CI/CD, code quality standards, AI coding tools and the metrics that track them.

Reporting to the SVP of Corporate Engineering, you'll be the dedicated owner across all engineering teams, partnering with engineering, security and compliance. This is a hands-on build role: you'll establish the tooling and governance model from scratch, then build the business case to hire and lead a Developer Platforms team as the scope grows.

Your work will give engineers the tools and standards to move quickly, alongside the access controls and operating guardrails to use agentic tools while managing security and audit risks.

What you'll be doing

Developer Toolchain and Code Quality

Own the developer toolchain, including source control, CI/CD, build and test infrastructure, development environments, and integrations with issue tracking and observability tools.

Set code review, testing and CI standards across engineering, and build the test infrastructure to support them.

Manage developer tooling vendors and spend.

AI Tooling and Governance

Lead adoption of AI coding agents and AI review and testing tools, adapting the tooling and policies based on how engineers actually work.

Design and implement the access and governance model for agentic coding tools: which repositories and environments agents can access, which actions require human approval, how actions are logged and attributed, and how these controls map to compliance frameworks.

Define and enforce guardrails for autonomous agents in production-adjacent systems, including least-privilege access, audit trails, rollback paths and incident response when an agent takes an unintended action.

Measurement and Team Building

Track software delivery, developer experience and AI usage through metrics such as DORA and developer surveys, and use what you learn to set priorities.

Build the business case for a Developer Platforms team as the scope grows.

Hire and lead the Developer Platforms team.

KPIs

Software delivery performance (DORA metrics)

Developer experience (developer survey results)

AI coding-tool usage

Requirements

• You have 8+ years of experience in platform, DevOps, infrastructure or developer-productivity engineering, including experience leading people.
• You've owned CI/CD and source control for a sizable engineering organisation and remain hands-on.
• You've rolled out and governed AI coding tools for a team or company, such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot or similar tools.
• You have working knowledge of access control, audit logging and compliance frameworks, and can translate security and compliance requirements into practical engineering guardrails.
• You've raised code quality and testing standards across multiple teams.
• You've built something from scratch without an existing team or playbook, working through an ambiguous mandate.
• You build effective partnerships across engineering, security and compliance, and can make progress through influence as well as authority.
• What we can offer you
• At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.
• Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months.
• Join one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies — your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed.
• Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy — always with our full support.
• Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.
• Equal Opportunities Statement
• 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.
• If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
• The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.

Conditions

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.

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.

$180,000 - $280,000 USD

Nscale does not accept unsolicited candidate submissions from recruitment agencies.