NVIDIA
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud-Native Stack – CSP Engagements
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara +4 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 10, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, TX, Austin
US, Remote
US, WA, Redmond
US, WA, Seattle - Experience
- 10+ years of professional software development experience in distributed systems.
- Education
- BS or MS (or equivalent experience) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
About the job
Develops and troubleshoots the cloud-native stack for large, multi-rack AI datacenters, adapting scheduling and GPU capabilities to cloud service provider needs.
What you'll do
- Debug Kubernetes and Slurm clusters across scheduling, runtimes, networking, storage, and control planes.
- Gather customer requirements, prototype stack extensions, and contribute architecture reviews, RFCs, and upstream pull requests.
- Build and automate customer-like testbeds, validation and benchmarks; create technical materials and present to customers and at events.
What they ask for
- Expertise in Kubernetes internals and Slurm.
- Experience integrating next-generation GPUs or comparable accelerators into containerized clusters, and debugging large-scale cloud-native systems.
- Customer-facing engineering or solutions-architecture experience, including requirements gathering and PoC ownership.
- 10+ years of professional software development experience in distributed systems; BS or MS (or equivalent experience) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Upstream contributions to Kubernetes, Slurm, Volcano, or similar projects.
- GPU computing (CUDA) and deep learning workload experience.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary (Level 5)
Tools
Kubernetes, Slurm, GB200, GB300, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Prometheus
AI focus
Develops cloud-native infrastructure for AI/ML datacenters and GPU workloads; NVIDIA also states it uses AI tools in recruiting.
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