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NVIDIA

Principal Software Engineer – Infrastructure

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · Lead / Staff / Principal

$248,000 – $391,000

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What this role is

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.

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What they ask for

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

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