# Senior Backend Platform Engineer - Profiling Services

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA's Developer Tools team is seeking a Senior Backend Platform Engineer to build scalable and reliable capabilities for profiling services.

This role combines production backend engineering with data-intensive systems work. You will improve how complex performance data is processed, served, and operated. The work involves close collaboration with partners in frontend, security, product, and source systems.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design and build production backend services for interactive performance analysis and collaborative workflows.

- Improve the responsiveness, scalability, and efficiency of data-intensive product experiences.

- Develop reliable capabilities for onboarding, validating, organizing, and serving large performance datasets.

- Create durable service interfaces and data models that can evolve as product needs grow.

- Engineer resilient behavior for concurrency, partial failures, retries, and recovery.

- Establish effective testing, observability, and operational practices for the capabilities you own.

- Partner with frontend, security, product, and source-system teams to deliver complete customer workflows.

**Requirements:**

- BS or MS in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

- 5+ years of experience building production backend services, distributed systems, analytical systems, or data platforms using Python or a comparable language.

- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including automated tests, failure handling, production diagnostics, and compatible evolution of APIs or stored data.

- For service-focused work, experience with asynchronous backends and hands-on depth in query execution or real-time stateful systems.

- For data-focused work, strong SQL and experience with ingestion, schema evolution, analytical storage, or query-optimized data modeling.

- Sound judgment about failure and concurrency, demonstrated through problems such as cancellation, replay, safe retries, or recovery.

- Ability to measure system behavior and turn logs, metrics, traces, load tests, or data-quality signals into practical improvements.

- A record of working across client, service, data, and security concerns to ship a complete production workflow.

**Nice to Have:**

- Practical coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust, encompassing the capability to write, review, and direct production-quality infrastructure software.

- Experience making high-cardinality, time-indexed, trace, telemetry, or profiling workloads responsive at scale.

- Experience keeping live state consistent with WebSockets, pub/sub, replay, or comparable real-time techniques.

- Experience improving analytical reads or ingestion with columnar formats, embedded query engines, analytical stores, progressive detail, or incremental processing.

- Background in generated clients, secure sharing, authorization-aware caching, provenance, lifecycle automation, or cost attribution.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Backend Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- Data Platforms
- SQL
- Asynchronous Backends
- Query Execution
- Real-time Stateful Systems
- Data Modeling
- Software Engineering
- Automated Tests
- Failure Handling
- Production Diagnostics

### Nice to have
- C++
- Rust
- WebSockets
- Pub/Sub
- Columnar Formats
- Embedded Query Engines
- Analytical Stores
- Progressive Detail
- Incremental Processing

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