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Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking

Location Type
Remote
Role
Infrastructure
Level
Senior

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation, founded in 1993, is a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) computing and graphics technology. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA has established itself as a pioneering force in the technology industry, especially known for its advancements in GPUs (graphics processing units) that have transformed gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and automotive markets.

The company’s Santa Clara headquarters is located at 2788 San Tomas Expressway and serves as the central hub for its executive team and core operations. The campus features state-of-the-art facilities designed to support extensive research and development, particularly focused on AI and graphics technologies. This includes advanced labs and offices that facilitate collaboration across engineering, marketing, and customer support teams.

NVIDIA’s product portfolio spans GPUs, AI computing platforms, and software innovations that enable breakthroughs in deep learning, autonomous vehicles, and high-performance computing. Its technologies are widely used in gaming, data science, healthcare, automotive safety, and cloud computing sectors.

Beyond product development, NVIDIA’s headquarters also functions as a strategic center for corporate governance and decision-making, reinforcing the company’s role in shaping the future of computing and AI globally. The company maintains a strong worldwide presence with multiple offices across the Americas, Europe, and Asia to support its global customer base and operations.

NVIDIA continues to push the boundaries of technology innovation, driven by a mission to accelerate computing to solve the world’s most challenging problems through AI and visual computing.

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company”. We are looking to grow our company, and grow with the smartest people in the world. We are looking for you.

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and talented people in the world working for us. We offer highly competitive salaries, an extensive benefits package, and a work environment that promotes diversity, inclusion, and flexibility. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a supportive and empowering workplace for all. If you’re creative and passionate about developing cloud services we want to hear from you!

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About the Job

We are looking for a Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking to build highly performant and scalable Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions and seamlessly integrate these with the rest of the Cloud Infrastructure in order to host Accelerated Compute applications like Hyperscale Multi-node training, Inference, Cloud Gaming, Cloud functions etc.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Design, develop, deploy and operate next generation multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data planes software

  • DevOps automation tasks for SDN stack – CI/CD, GitOps for secure and seamless integration with cloud infrastructure components.

  • To complement the efficient networking architecture, you will help designing Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration API-driven services to support tenants workloads security and performance SLAs for BMaaS, VMaaS and Kubernetes.

  • You will also develop software for network observability (monitoring and telemetry) to enable intelligent metering and performance analysis for KPIs enforcement for tenants workloads

What we need to see:

  • BA/BS degree in Computer Science, related technical discipline (or equivalent experience), MS preferred

  • 10+ years of experience developing software for large scale distributed environments according to industry standard best DevOps practices

  • Deep understanding of the modern network stack and protocols

  • Hands-on experience developing secure and performant API-driven services (gRPC, ReST with transport encryption and strong authentication)

  • Background in private cloud/large distributed systems architecture design.

  • Experience with modern data center servers and network equipment (out-of-band management, provisioning, monitoring – IPMI, RedFish, zero-touch provisioning)

  • Hands-on experience with SDN – OpenFlow, Open Virtual Switch or equivalent solutions

  • Hands-on experience with one or more SDN solutions (control and data planes)

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience with RDMA (InfiniBand or RoCE) protocols and fabrics designs and deployments

  • Understanding of container networking (CNI) APIs and implementations

  • SRE/DevOps: top-level expertise

  • Hands-on background with Tier 1 CSPs (AWS, Azure and others) services and tools

  • Hands-on experience with networking hardware acceleration