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Senior System Software Engineer

NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA senior full-time

Salary

152,000 USD – 241,500 USD for Level 3 per year

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Description

We are now looking for a Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA, the leading artificial intelligence computing company paving the way with innovations in self-driving cars, machine learning, supercomputing, gaming, and visualization.

You will innovate to provide solutions to increase system reliability and performance, design and develop creative scalable cloud solutions with a major focus on performance and scalability. You will participate in the design, implementation, and documentation of system architecture initiatives and full development life cycles.

Responsibilities:

  • Innovate to provide solutions to increase system reliability and performance
  • Design and develop creative scalable cloud solutions with a major focus on performance, scalability
  • Participate in the design, implementation, documentation of system architecture initiatives and full development life cycles
  • Work on challenging problems to increase system reliability and performance, such as job scheduling, resource management, and automated recovery
  • Build complete solutions including Metrics, Alert, and Storage Services
  • Dig into data, analyze, and apply analytics to improve the performance/predictability of the system
  • Provide technical leadership to other team members and be a great team player

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of proven experience and a degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
  • Proficient in design and development of Microservices using Java technologies
  • Background in developing large-scale cloud infrastructure applications
  • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
  • Experience in Databases, both SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (Elastic search, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of various technologies (Kubernetes, Dockers, Kafka, etc.)
  • Experience with Web Services (SOAP/REST), Jenkins, Git/Perforce, Scalable storage
  • Passionate for automated testing (TDD/Unit tests/Scalable Testing)
  • Experience with UI technologies

Nice to have:

  • Ability to tackle large problems and break them down into simple sub-problems to implement effective solutions
  • Background in designing high-performance scalable software systems with a strong focus on optimizing cost
  • Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic environment
  • Strong commitment to get the most performance out of a system being worked on

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 152,000 USD – 241,500 USD for Level 3; and 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Experience with large-scale cloud infrastructure applications
  • Background in designing high-performance scalable software systems
  • Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills

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You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Senior-System-Software-Engineer_JR2029610

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