Staff Product Engineer, Developer Experience

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.
• The tech you’ll be using includes Go, TypeScript / React, OpenAPI, CLIs, SDKs, Terraform providers, telemetry, and automation.
• Proficiency in Go, or clear evidence you can ramp quickly in Go-based developer tooling.
• Proven ability to operate at Staff scope: leading ambiguous cross-team work through strategy, architecture, and delivery.
• Strong full-stack capability across TypeScript / React, Go-based tooling, telemetry, and automation.
• Experience with OpenAPI-driven or contract-first development.
• Track record of operational ownership: reliability, performance, and safe incremental delivery in production.
• Strong written communication: can write specs and RFCs that translate into systems that are built, tested, and maintained.
• Practical experience using AI as a force multiplier in workflow and/or product, with attention to cost/latency and reliability.

Preferred

• Experience shipping CLIs, SDKs, Terraform providers/modules, or other tools developers automate against.
• Release engineering for developer tools, including semantic versioning, deprecation policy, signed releases, package registries, or compatibility guarantees.
• Experience scaling a design system or shared UI foundations across multiple product teams.
• Experience building AI-assisted developer features with strong evaluation and observability.
• Experience with cloud/platform products and operator workflows (auditing, IAM, reliability/observability).

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 bes