Software Engineer – Data and Observability Platform

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara, US, TX, Austin

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

NVIDIA’s Hardware Infrastructure organization seeks a high-caliber Software Engineer to join the Data & Observability Platform team. We provide the data backbone for NVIDIA’s GPU/CPU development and AI research teams. Our platform manages large-scale telemetry that supports observability, reliability analysis, and capacity forecasting for EDA datacenters. We are looking for a software engineer with excellent coding skills and full-stack experience. You should be proficient in software engineering principles and experienced with distributed systems/data-intensive infrastructure.

What You’ll Be Doing:

At NVIDIA, you will build and maintain high-throughput services that collect and process metrics, logs, and hardware telemetry from compute clusters. You will design and deploy internal web applications, tools, and APIs to configure data pipelines, visualize platform health, and integrate AI workflows. You will contribute to modernizing the Data Platform, ensuring it aligns with industry trends and supports our unique needs and use cases. You will manage the deployment and lifecycle of services on Kubernetes and Cloud. You will partner with users to refactor data schemas, identify latency bottlenecks, and apply storage patterns to reduce operational costs. You will ensure high platform availability through detailed on-call practices and proactive monitoring of complex data dependencies.

What We Need to See:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of experience writing production-grade code. High proficiency in Python or Java/Scala, with an emphasis on writing testable, performant, and asynchronous code.

• A deep understanding of Distributed Systems and Linux internals.

• Experience building end-to-end features from the ground up, including backend APIs development and schemas to implementing functional frontends.

• Proficiency in SQL and an understanding of data modeling, read/write tradeoffs, query execution patterns, and optimized data formats.

• Comfortable debugging production issues, distributed traces, and memory leaks in a high-scale environment.

• Ability to break down ambiguous problems into simpler, executable components in a fast-paced environment.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:

• Experience with frameworks/tools like Spark, Kafka, Trino. Familiarity with partition strategies, offset management, and backpressure.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, service deployments, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and cloud administration.

• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenSearch, and the ability to build custom exporters or telemetry dashboards.

• Experience with HPC environments, semiconductor build workflows, or handling large-scale hardware telemetry.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 124,000 USD - 195,500 USD for Level 2, and 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 15, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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