Principal Software Engineer

Posted:
8/11/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Remote

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with experience in building highly scalable and robust enterprise software to join us. We are building and improving a powerful platform that will automate diagnosis and repair of a cluster of GPUs or CPUs across public clouds, private clouds and virtual and physical hardware.

What you'll be doing:

  • Architecting scalable and reliable software components to enable the core platform to maintain an inventory of resources including hosts, GPUs, and switches; to automate actions to diagnose failures and to repair

  • Influencing the product roadmap in collaboration with teams across various departments with the goal of reducing SRE toil and improving hardware utilization

  • Collaborating with various organizations across Nvidia to drive adoption of the platform in order to improve GPU utilization

  • Defining and running benchmarks for various subsystems

  • Leading and delivering high impact projects with high quality, performance and stability with the lowest resource consumption

  • Developing a robust feedback control system that analyzes signals about system health and automatically runs commands to fix discovered issues

  • Programming in modern languages like Go and Rust

What we need to see:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

  • 15 years of equivalent experience

  • Demonstrated ability in building scalable and robust distributed systems

  • Proven record of product rollouts and collaborating with early adopters

  • Proficiency in programming in C/C++, Java, Rust or Go.

  • Technical stewardship of projects across the organization

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Deep understanding of multi-threading and distributed systems concepts

  • Excellent track record of delivering projects

  • Expertise in optimizing SQL queries

  • Expert level knowledge of Rust programming

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for great people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and dedicated people in the world working for us. If you're creative and passionate about developing cloud services we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 419,750 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.