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NVIDIA

Senior Systems Software Engineer - Infrastructure

NVIDIA
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senior full-time Santa Clara, CA

First indexed 5 Aug 2026

Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Systems Software Engineer to join the GPU Firmware Infrastructure team. The successful candidate will be responsible for setting the technical direction for major platform areas, designing and leading infrastructure initiatives, and owning platform reliability.

The team focuses on crafting extraordinary automation, tools, and practices that accelerate NVIDIA's GPU innovation. Responsibilities include:

  • Setting technical direction for major platform areas
  • Designing and leading infrastructure initiatives
  • Defining SLIs and SLOs, instrumenting unmeasured areas, reducing MTTR, and automating incident response
  • Finding automation opportunities and delivering solutions
  • Architecting and inventing AI-powered workflows
  • Setting the technical bar through design review, technical writing, and mentoring

Requirements:

  • BS or MS degree in EE/CS/CE (or equivalent experience)
  • 12+ years of infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering
  • Deep expertise in modern CI/CD and test automation architecture
  • Strong Python fluency, infrastructure-as-code experience, and scripting ability
  • History in distributed systems, cloud or on-prem compute fleets, containers, and orchestration
  • Strong understanding of database concepts, schema design, object modeling, SQL or non-SQL
  • Past ownership of cross-org production system(s)
  • Outstanding communication, leading, and teaching skills

The company offers equity and benefits.