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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer - **Company:** Nscale Ltd. - **Location:** UK - **Salary:** £70,843.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Engineering, Cloud Foundry, Software Quality, InfiniBand, Python (Programming Language), Software Architecture, Remote Direct Memory Access, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Kubernetes, Slurm - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5870764723 ## About the Role * Extensive experience designing and building production software and automation for HPC systems, especially Slurm-based environments. * Strong track record of writing maintainable, testable and resilient software in Go, Python or similar languages. * Proven ability to define technical direction across a domain spanning multiple teams or services. * Strong understanding of Slurm internals, scheduler behaviour, cluster lifecycle concerns and operational trade offs. * Strong practical understanding of GPU-backed infrastructure and HPC networking, including InfiniBand, RoCE, RDMA and performance sensitive workload characteristics. * Experience integrating HPC systems with cloud-native platforms, APIs, or service delivery models. * Experience creating engineering leverage through standards, reusable patterns, shared tooling and architectural clarity. * Strong judgement in balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health and supportability. * Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align multiple teams around a coherent technical direction. * Experience with other schedulers or batch systems such as Kueue is valuable. ## Description We're hiring a Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer to define the technical direction and evolution of a core HPC platform domain at Nscale. In this role, you will operate beyond a single team, shaping how multiple teams build, automate, and run Slurm-based capabilities within Nscale's wider cloud-native platform. You'll work across engineering boundaries to bring coherence to architecture, interfaces, lifecycle models, and operational approaches, while partnering closely with teams working on platform tooling, infrastructure APIs, identity systems, and Kubernetes-adjacent systems. This is a high-impact staff-level role for someone who combines deep hands-on software engineering with strong systems judgement. Your work will help ensure Nscale's HPC services are robust, supportable, and maintainable, while creating leverage through shared patterns, reusable implementations, and clear technical direction across ambiguous, business-critical problem spaces. What You'll Be Doing Domain Architecture & Technical Direction * Own and evolve the technical direction for a defined HPC systems domain, such as Slurm platform architecture, scheduler integrations, cluster lifecycle, workload environments or service automation. * Make architectural decisions that balance software quality, operational realities, customer needs, and long-term maintainability. * Define how proven Slurm implementations should be packaged, automated and exposed as a service. * Resolve ambiguity around ownership, interfaces, lifecycle boundaries, and operating models across teams. * Act as the technical escalation point for the most complex issues within the domain. Cross-Team Engineering Leverage * Establish shared patterns for automation, service lifecycle management, observability, reliability and supportability across the HPC platform. * Drive cross-team design for integrations between Slurm, Kubernetes-adjacent systems, infrastructure APIs, identity systems and platform tooling. * Create reusable modules, automation, deployment patterns, and reference implementations that increase engineering leverage. * Identity and correct avoidable technical divergence, duplicated effort and fragile operating models * Ensure domain designs reflect the realities of GPU scheduling, HPC networking, performance isolation and production operations. Delivery, Reliability & Influence * Lead technically critical initiatives spanning 2-4 teams or a defined HPC platform area. * Unblocked delivery by clarifying technical direction and reducing ambiguity in complex system design problems. * Contribute hands-on where needed to de-risk or accelerate critical work. * Influence engineering teams without formal authority through strong judgement, design clarity and practical solutions. * Partner with adjacent cloud-native software engineers so HPC implementations build on shared platform patterns rather than separate ones. KPIs * Technical direction across a defined HPC domain * Delivery of critical initiatives across 2-4 teams * Reduction in technical divergence and duplicated effort * Reliability and supportability of Slurm-based HPC services, duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and ## Related Videos - [Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100355-running-secure-life-science-research-at-scale-using-hybrid-gpu-hpc-and-kubernetes) - [The Gashlycrumb Tinies of AI Networking You Must Know (or Languish!)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2067-the-gashlycrumb-tinies-of-ai-networking-you-must-know-or-languish) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Instant KAI Sandboxes with vCluster: Multi-Tenant, Multi-Scheduler GPU Sharing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100333-instant-kai-sandboxes-with-vcluster-multi-tenant-multi-scheduler-gpu-sharing) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Microservices: how to get started with Spring Boot and Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/242-microservices-how-to-get-started-with-spring-boot-and-kubernetes) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [7 Cloud Computing Trends Coming in 2025 for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/412-7-cloud-computing-trends-coming-in-2025-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Top 6 Hackathons for Developers in 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/263-top-6-hackathons-for-developers-in-2023)