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# Senior Manager, Developer Platforms

- **Company:** NSCALE, LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $280,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Audit Trail, Automation of Tests, Software Quality, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Cursor, DevOps, Issue Tracking Systems, Systems Integration, Toolchain, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Grafana, AI Coding Agents, Agentic-AI, OpenAI Codex, Software Version Control
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=74ae7e9845cd9117

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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., * 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., * 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., * 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, 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.