# Principal Software Engineer – Infrastructure

Hiring organization: [NVIDIA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nvidia)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/65a07f7e-6ae0-4c21-a52f-8b8d1f63f800

Listed on NVIDIA's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: Santa Clara, CA
- Salary: 248000 – 391000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead the design and evolution of NVIDIA's enterprise infrastructure automation and configuration management platforms across data centers and cloud environments. This is a hands-on architecture role for someone with deep systems engineering expertise who can set multi-year technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and drive large-scale transformations from strategy through production adoption.

_Our summary, not NVIDIA's wording._

## Skills named

API Design, CI/CD, Databricks, Go, Infrastructure as Code, Java, Kubernetes, Linux, Python

## Required

- 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience with complex, business-critical platforms and distributed systems
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Deep knowledge of enterprise configuration management or infrastructure automation platforms like Ansible, AWX, or Salt
- Deep hands-on expertise in Go, Python, Java, or comparable systems programming language including APIs, concurrency, and distributed systems
- Strong hands-on experience in Linux, Kubernetes, containers, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, and CI/CD
- Strong experience with enterprise data and automation pipelines using Databricks or comparable platforms
- Proven experience defining and evolving architecture of large-scale infrastructure platforms across multiple teams and environments
- Demonstrated ability to identify organization-wide challenges, establish strategy, and drive cross-team implementation
- Outstanding communication and technical leadership skills with ability to influence senior leaders and mentor experienced engineers

## Nice to have

- Experience architecting, deploying, and managing Ansible Automation Platform at enterprise scale
- Experience developing platforms managing large global infrastructure fleets across data centers, public clouds, compute, storage, and networking
- History of leading development and enterprise-wide adoption of AI-enabled configuration management or autonomous operations platform
- Experience using AI to solve infrastructure challenges like configuration drift, compliance, change-risk analysis, incident diagnosis, or automated remediation

Apply on NVIDIA's site: https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Principal-Software-Engineer---Infrastructure_JR2024352-1