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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Infrastructure Software Engineer, Fleet & Automation - **Company:** NSCALE, LLC - **Location:** Houston, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $215,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Unit Testing, Intelligent Platform Management Interface, Border Gateway Protocol, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Linux, Distributed Systems, Ethernet, Monitoring of Systems, InfiniBand, Python (Programming Language), Network Control, Networking Basics, OpenStack, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Systems Integration, TCP/IP, AI Infrastructure, Network Switches, Scripting, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Computer Network Operations, High Performance Computing, System Availability, Grafana, Build Management, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Bare Metal, Slurm, Api Design, Terraform, Docker - **Published:** June 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=77482b319790ba05 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Unit testing?, * Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. * Experience: 5+ years relevant experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or similar experience. * Programming: Experience in utilizing languages such as C, C++, Java, and scripting languages such as Python for API design and unit testing techniques. * Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of Linux operating systems, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, BGP), and familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform). * Distributed Systems: Experience building, running and debugging large-scale infrastructure, stateful and stateless services for distributed systems or networks, and experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture. Experience integrating with infrastructure tooling such as: DCIMs, NetBox, OpenStack, bare metal APIs (MAAS, Ironic, IPMI)., * Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. * Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and performance of various system resources. * Direct experience with AI/HPC infrastructure, including NVIDIA GPUs, InfiniBand or high-speed Ethernet fabrics, and related management software (e.g., NCCL, SLURM). * Experience with advanced observability and monitoring systems (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for complex, high-cardinality telemetry data. * Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure-as-code principles. * Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements). * Familiarity with SLOs/metrics measurement, logs/telemetry/metrics integration with tools for enhanced operator experience. ## Description As an Infrastructure Software Engineer for Fleet & Automation, you will be a critical member of the AI Infrastructure Operations team, responsible for ensuring the acceptance, performance, and scalability of our cutting-edge AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Leveraging software engineering principles, you will focus on building and maintaining the control plane, tooling, and automation that supports Fleet Operations, Network Operations, and Observability functions. Your work will directly translate into higher system availability and reduced operational costs., * Perform technical architecture, roadmap and implementation for workflow automation systems, driving architecture decisions that balance automation complexity, reliability, and maintainability. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues. Establish technology and product direction in collaboration with other tech leads, managers, and senior leadership. * Own end-to-end delivery of device provisioning, validation, testing, and remediation workflows at scale. * Design and build workflow orchestration systems for hardware lifecycle management, including GPU nodes and network switches. * Partner with Infrastructure, Platform, and SRE teams to translate operational needs into robust, scalable automation. * Establish engineering standards for reliability, observability, and operational excellence across all services. Help set up engineering best practices in collaboration with the broader engineering team. * Build production-grade Python systems for hardware lifecycle automation, leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery. Assess impact to team software stack from new hardware product programs and explore AI driven process improvement and automation. * Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, design, operations, infrastructure) to build efficient, interoperable, and maintainable automated systems. ## 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) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [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) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Docker exec without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1094-docker-exec-without-docker) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [7 Cloud Computing Trends Coming in 2025 for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/412-7-cloud-computing-trends-coming-in-2025-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer)