NVIDIA
Senior Software Engineer - Cluster Networking
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara +4 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, MA, Westford
US, TX, Austin
US, CO, Remote
US, NC, Durham - Experience
- 6+ years of professional experience; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
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About the job
Leads networking architecture and operations for large-scale GPU superclusters that run AI/ML workloads across clouds and regions.
What you'll do
- Own and scale Kubernetes networking, CNI, overlay mesh, VPNs, gateways, load balancers, and tunnels.
- Identify and resolve network scaling limits and distributed failures; build scale-test environments and validation suites.
- Coordinate network topology and requirements with cloud providers and provide technical guidance to a distributed team.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of professional experience in systems, network, or infrastructure software engineering.
- Strong Kubernetes networking and CNI knowledge; proficiency with mesh/VPN topologies, Linux networking, and large-scale network debugging.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, C, or a comparable systems language.
Nice to have
- Production experience operating Calico; experience architecting Kubernetes at thousands-of-node scale or operating networking across public clouds and on-premises.
- Experience with InfiniBand, RoCE, or RDMA; upstream contributions to Calico, Cilium, Tailscale, or Kubernetes networking SIGs; familiarity with Slurm or other HPC schedulers on Kubernetes.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary (Level 5)
Tools
Kubernetes, CNI, Calico, Tailscale, WireGuard, Envoy, Cloudflare, Slurm
AI focus
Builds and scales networking infrastructure for GPU superclusters running frontier AI model training and AI/ML workloads.
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