Senior Engineer, System Software, SDN Operations

🕒 August 14

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $184k - $287.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems 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 network observability software for monitoring, telemetry, intelligent metering, and performance analysis • Operate and support OVS-OVN-based SDN solutions in large-scale NVIDIA AI Cloud environments • Own end-to-end SDN observability, including monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and dashboarding • 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 a related technical field, or equivalent experience • 8+ years of proven software development experience in large-scale distributed environments • Expert-level knowledge of OVN, OVS, OpenFlow, and modern network protocols • Strong programming skills in C and Go • Advanced scripting skills in Bash and Python • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and practical experience deploying and supporting CNIs, especially OVN-Kubernetes • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment tools including Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, and Flux • Experience designing and operating complex, multi-stage CI/CD pipelines • Hands-on experience developing secure, high-performance gRPC and REST services 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 such as GPU or DPU for networking • Practical experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid/multi-cloud deployments • SRE/DevOps expertise including on-call, incident management, reliability targets, and production ownership • Experience with observability platforms and tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and ELK

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary package • Equity • Benefits • Equal opportunity and inclusive work environment