# Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking to design, build, and operate highly performant and scalable SDN solutions for NVIDIA's AI Clouds hosting GPU-accelerated workloads , including hyperscale multi-node training, inference, cloud gaming, and cloud functions.

This role spans the full lifecycle of our SDN stack , from designing and developing new control and data plane software to ensuring operational excellence in production through reliability engineering, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.

**Responsibilities**

- Design and develop next-generation multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software (OVS, OVN, OpenFlow)

- Build Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration and services using gRPC and REST to support tenant workload security and performance SLAs for BMaaS, VMaaS, and Kubernetes

- Drive upstream contributions to OVN-Kubernetes and related open-source projects; Develop software for network observability , monitoring, telemetry, intelligent metering, and performance analysis

- Operate and support OVS-OVN based SDN solutions in large-scale NVIDIA AI Cloud environments

- Own end-to-end observability for the SDN stack , build and maintain monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and dashboarding to ensure real-time insight into network health, performance, and tenant SLAs

- Design, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) across Linux host networking, OVS, OVN, and Kubernetes CNIs

- Implement GitOps approaches or related experience for secure, seamless integration with cloud infrastructure; Drive reliability through incident management, resource monitoring, and performance tuning

- Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and network engineering teams on production readiness and operational tooling

**Requirements**

- BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical field, or a comparable blend of education and relevant experience

- 5+ years of proven experience in software development for large-scale distributed environments

- Expert-level knowledge of OVN, OVS, OpenFlow, and modern network protocols

- Strong programming skills in C and Go; advanced scripting in Bash and Python

- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, practical experience deploying and supporting CNIs (OVN-Kubernetes)

- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment tools (Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux)

- Experience designing and operating complex, multi-stage CI/CD pipelines

- Hands-on experience developing secure, high-performance services using gRPC and REST with TLS and strong authentication

- Strong knowledge of datacenter routing, switching, and Linux host/VM networking

**Nice to Have**

- Contributions to open-source projects (especially OVS, OVN, OVN-Kubernetes, or other Kubernetes networking projects)

- Experience with hardware acceleration (GPU, DPU or equivalent experience) for networking

- Practical experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid/multi-cloud deployments

- SRE/DevOps top-level expertise , on-call, incident management, operations focused on service reliability targets, production ownership

- Experience with observability platforms and tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK)

## Skills

### Required
- OVS
- OVN
- OpenFlow
- Kubernetes
- C
- Go
- Bash
- Python
- gRPC
- REST
- TLS
- Linux

### Nice to have
- open-source projects
- hardware acceleration
- cloud providers
- SRE/DevOps
- observability platforms

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