NVIDIA
Senior Systems Software Engineer, Observability and Telemetry Platform
$152K–$242K
US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, Remote - Experience
- 5+ years in each of the two stated experience areas.
- Education
- BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent experience.
About the job
Designs, operates, and improves a large-scale observability and telemetry platform for reliable GPU cloud services.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and support the platform’s reliability, monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
- Manage services across their lifecycle, including design, deployment, capacity planning, monitoring, and reliability improvements.
- Participate in incident response, blameless postmortems, and an on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience with infrastructure automation, distributed systems design, and developing tools for production private or public cloud systems.
- 5+ years of experience delivering foundational infrastructure and observability platforms.
- Experience with one or more of Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby; in-depth knowledge of Linux, networking, and containers.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems and systematic problem-solving, debugging, and code optimization.
- Experience with Kubernetes, OpenStack, Docker, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or similar tools.
Pay
152,000 USD - 241,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Perl, Ruby, Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Docker
AI focus
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes; the role’s AI work is not specified.
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