# Senior Software Engineer - NIM Factory Container and Cloud Infrastructure

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on container and cloud infrastructure. You will help design and implement our core container strategy for NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIMs) and our hosted services. You will build enterprise-grade software and tooling for container build, packaging, and deployment. You will help improve reliability, performance, and scale across thousands of GPUs.

### Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and harden containers for NIM runtimes, inference backends; enable reproducible, multi-arch, CUDA-optimized builds.

- Develop Python tooling and services for build orchestration, CI/CD integrations, Helm/Operator automation, and test harnesses; enforce quality with typing, linting, and unit/integration tests.

- Help design and evolve Kubernetes deployment patterns for NIMs, including GPU scheduling, autoscaling, and multi-cluster rollouts.

- Optimize container performance: layer layout, startup time, build caching, runtime memory/IO, network, and GPU utilization; instrument with metrics and tracing.

- Evolve the base image strategy, dependency management, and artifact/registry topology.

- Collaborate across research, backend, SRE, and product teams to ensure day-0 availability of new models.

- Mentor teammates; set high engineering standards for container quality, security, and operability.

### Requirements:

- A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (BS or MS) or equivalent experience.

- 6+ years building production software with a strong focus on containers and Kubernetes.

- Strong Python skills building production-grade tooling/services

- Experience with Python SDKs and clients for Kubernetes and cloud services

- Expert knowledge of Docker/BuildKit, containerd/OCI, image layering, multi-stage builds, and registry workflows.

- Deep experience operating workloads on Kubernetes.

- Hands-on experience building and running GPU workloads in k8s, including NVIDIA device plugin, MIG, CUDA drivers/runtime, and resource isolation.

- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; ability to influence cross-functional design.

### Nice to Have:

- Expertise with Helm chart design systems, Operators, and platform APIs serving many teams.

- Experience with OpenAI API, Hugging Face API as well as understanding difference inference backends (vLLM, SGLang, TRT-LLM)

- Background in benchmarking and optimizing inference container performance and startup latency at scale.

- Prior experience designing multi-tenant, multi-cluster, or edge/air-gapped container delivery.

- Contributions to open-source container, k8s, or GPU ecosystems.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our exclusive engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you!

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until April 13, 2026.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- containerd
- OCI
- image layering
- multi-stage builds
- registry workflows
- GPU workloads
- NVIDIA device plugin
- MIG
- CUDA drivers/runtime
- resource isolation

### Nice to have
- Helm chart design systems
- Operators
- platform APIs
- OpenAI API
- Hugging Face API
- inference backends
- benchmarking
- optimizing inference container performance
- startup latency at scale
- multi-tenant
- multi-cluster
- edge/air-gapped container delivery
- open-source container
- k8s
- GPU ecosystems

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