Staff Product Engineer, Developer Experience

Nscale, New York

The role

We’re seeking a Staff Product Engineer to define the paved roads developers use to adopt, operate, and scale on Nscale, from first API call to production workloads.

This is a high-impact IC role for someone who operates beyond a single squad: setting technical direction, owning multi-quarter roadmaps, and driving cross-team delivery for developer-facing products and paved roads.

You’ll work end-to-end across discovery, design, build, and iteration, partnering closely with Product, Design, Platform, SRE, and Security, to ship developer experiences that are measurable improvements in speed, reliability, and trust.

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Staff Product Engineer, Developer Experience

Nscale, New York

Posted pay

$220K–$267K

a year

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This base pay is near the median for staff software engineering jobs in New York.

Median: $254K a year
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Location: New York
Work type: Not given
Level: Staff
Skills in the job text: TypeScript
React
Go
Terraform
Posted: Aug 14, 2026
Last check: 7 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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The role

We’re seeking a Staff Product Engineer to define the paved roads developers use to adopt, operate, and scale on Nscale, from first API call to production workloads.

What you will do

Responsibilities

Set direction and roadmap: define a multi-quarter strategy for a DevEx domain, including sequencing, milestones, and success metrics.
Lead cross-team delivery: drive execution across teams and repos; align dependencies, unblock delivery, and ensure high-quality outcomes.
Build and evolve core DevEx surfaces and foundations:
Console/Fleet Manager experiences and shared UI foundations
Developer tooling (CLIs, generators, templates, local dev workflows)
API/SDK experience (ergonomics, versioning, examples, docs)
Terraform/IaC workflows and operational patterns
Documentation and onboarding flows that reduce time-to-first-success
Instrument and iterate: define KPIs (activation/time-to-first-success, adoption funnels, reliability, latency, satisfaction), implement telemetry, and build feedback loops.
Establish durable quality gates: pragmatic testing strategy, performance budgets, accessibility standards, observability, and safe release patterns (feature flags, canaries/rollbacks).
Drive platform coherency: standardize patterns and shared components so product squads integrate cleanly without central gatekeeping.
Security and governance: ensure RBAC/IAM, PII handling, auditability, and safe defaults are built into developer workflows.
Mentor and multiply: coach senior engineers, raise engineering standards via design reviews and patterns, and help teams adopt DevEx paved roads.

What success looks like

A key developer journey measurably improves (activation, time-to-first-success, reliability, or satisfaction) and the improvements sustain over time.
Multiple teams adopt shared DevEx paved roads and standards, reducing bespoke solutions and integration friction.
Delivery speed increases without sacrificing quality, backed by stable metrics and reliable release signals.

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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