Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking

🕒 September 11

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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NVIDIA

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1993

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Healthcare • Manufacturing • Artificial Intelligence

NVIDIA is a leading technology company specializing in accelerated computing and artificial intelligence. NVIDIA pioneers advancements in graphical processing units (GPUs), cloud computing, data centers, and virtual reality, with a focus on gaming, automotive, healthcare, and robotics industries. The company's innovations, such as NVIDIA Omniverse, transform traditional digital processes by enabling high-fidelity simulations and rendering tasks. Their applications span various industries, from autonomous vehicles using NVIDIA DRIVE to healthcare solutions with NVIDIA Clara, and AI-driven analytics and workflows.

📋 Description

• Design and develop next-generation multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software using OVS, OVN, and OpenFlow • Build Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration and services using gRPC and REST for BMaaS, VMaaS, and Kubernetes • Drive upstream contributions to OVN-Kubernetes and related open-source projects • Develop software for network observability, including monitoring, telemetry, intelligent metering, and performance analysis • Operate and support OVS-OVN based SDN solutions in large-scale NVIDIA AI Cloud environments • Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and dashboarding for the SDN stack • Design, enhance, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines across Linux host networking, OVS, OVN, and Kubernetes CNIs • Implement GitOps approaches and integrate securely with cloud infrastructure • Drive reliability through incident management, resource monitoring, and performance tuning • Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and network engineering teams on production readiness and operational tooling

🎯 Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical field, or a comparable blend of education and relevant experience • 5+ years of proven experience in software development for large-scale distributed environments • Expert-level knowledge of OVN, OVS, OpenFlow, and modern network protocols • Strong programming skills in C and Go; advanced scripting in Bash and Python • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, practical experience deploying and supporting CNIs (OVN-Kubernetes) • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment tools (Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux) • Experience designing and operating complex, multi-stage CI/CD pipelines • Hands-on experience developing secure, high-performance services using gRPC and REST with TLS and strong authentication • Strong knowledge of datacenter routing, switching, and Linux host/VM networking • Contributions to open-source projects, especially OVS, OVN, OVN-Kubernetes, or other Kubernetes networking projects • Experience with hardware acceleration (GPU, DPU or equivalent experience) for networking • Practical experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid/multi-cloud deployments • SRE/DevOps expertise, including on-call, incident management, operations focused on service reliability targets, and production ownership • Experience with observability platforms and tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK)