Staff Product Engineer, Developer Experience

About the role

About 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.

Scope & impact

- Owns strategy and outcomes for a DevEx domain (e.g., onboarding & activation, API/SDK experience, Console/Fleet Manager foundations, IaC workflows, or internal developer tooling).

- Influences multiple teams by establishing standards, reusable components, and clear paved roads.

- Leads cross-team technical programs from strategy through delivery; navigates ambiguity and makes high-leverage trade-offs.

- Raises the quality bar through instrumentation, reliability discipline, and operational ownership.

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.

Requirements

- Significant experience shipping developer-facing products or platforms (tooling, portals, APIs/SDKs, docs, dashboards) with strong product sense and engineering fundamentals.