NVIDIA
Director, Software Engineering – Cloud Compute and Infrastructure
$320K–$489K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ overall years in software engineering, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure, including 7+ years leading engineering teams and experience managing engineering managers.
- Education
- A degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads engineering teams building and operating NVIDIA’s bare-metal fleet management, cloud compute, and continuous integration infrastructure for engineering systems.
What you'll do
- Own architecture, implementation, deployment, and operations of cloud compute, bare-metal fleet management, and CI infrastructure.
- Set technical direction for provisioning, placement, capacity management, bare-metal lifecycle automation, and reliable CI services.
- Hire and develop engineering teams; partner across hardware, software, datacenter operations, and facilities to bring platforms and capacity online.
What they ask for
- Direct ownership of the underlying services of a public or private compute cloud or comparable infrastructure-as-a-service platform.
- Strong technical depth in distributed systems, Linux, virtualization, containers, and networking and storage services for large compute fleets.
- Experience building bare-metal infrastructure software and automation, and operating production infrastructure with demanding availability requirements.
- Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating OpenStack infrastructure, particularly Nova, Neutron, Cinder, or Ironic.
- Experience with GPU clusters, rack-scale computing, high-speed networking, preproduction hardware, or hardware-in-the-loop CI.
Pay
320,000 USD - 488,750 USD (base salary)
Tools
AWS EC2, Google Compute Engine, Azure Compute, OCI Compute, OpenStack, Nova, Neutron, Cinder
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