Cloud Platform Software Engineer – Platform APIs

Posted 10 Days Ago
2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
184K-288K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Hardware • Robotics • Metaverse
The Role
Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes-native APIs and Go-based reconciliation controllers to provision and manage multi-cloud, GPU-accelerated ML/AI infrastructure. Contribute to IaC automation, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and cross-team integrations while collaborating on architecture and open-source projects.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you passionate about Kubernetes and AI and want to help build the best platform for ML/AI infrastructure? Do you thrive when your work directly empowers teams to push the boundaries of what's possible? We're the Platform API team within NVIDIA's DGX Cloud organization - a collaborative group of cloud platform engineers, architects, and SREs who are passionate about building and nurturing the declarative, Kubernetes-native control plane that powers GPU-accelerated infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. Together, we're empowering the world's leading AI teams to train and deploy at datacenter scale.
 

We design and extend Kube-like APIs, and we craft Go-based reconciliation controllers that thoughtfully turn high-level intent into production-ready AI infrastructure. We take pride in owning our code end-to-end, and we care deeply about the full lifecycle of multi-cloud GPU clusters, from customer onboarding and provisioning through upgrades and decommissioning. We partner closely with our runtime, cloud architecture, observability, and storage teams to solve sophisticated distributed systems challenges together. As a team, we're strengthening NVIDIA's approach to Cloud Native development.
 

What you will be doing:

  • Develop software systems to support large scale deployments of cloud infrastructure

  • Design and develop APIs to support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation and deployment workflows.

  • Responsible for contributing to multiple source code projects to fulfill NVIDIA requirements with software services

  • Work and collaborate with engineering managers, architects, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver high quality software

  • Automate the validation of software solutions with unit and integration tests

  • Participate in the ownership and health of CI/CD pipelines from dev to production environments

  • Collaborate with other specialists for feedback on proposed designs and product direction

  • Openly share successes and failures in a no blame environment

What we need to see:

  • BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience

  • 8+ years of proven experience in large scale software development

  • Experience building and shipping services on Kubernetes

  • Background with using and chipping in to open-source projects

  • Collaborated with teams to write software to support cloud services at scale

  • Programming experience in a relevant language, e.g. Golang, Python

  • Communicate design and quality strategy in written, visual, and oral formats

  • Experience with a wide range of modern infrastructure tools and technologies

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience with Kubernetes Cluster API, Terraform, Tinkerbell, and other infrastructure tooling

  • Practical experience with Azure, GCP, or AWS

  • Capable of refactoring software to run in systems such as Kubernetes

  • Ability to discuss and work with CSI, CNI, and CRI and/or familiarity with the CNCF and the tooling across the ecosystem

  • Upstream contribution in open source projects

#LI-Hybrid

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 hardworking people on the planet working for us. If you're a creative, curious, and driven technical leader, we want to hear from you!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 14, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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.

Skills Required

  • BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of proven experience in large scale software development
  • Experience building and shipping services on Kubernetes
  • Programming experience in Golang
  • Programming experience in Python
  • Background contributing to or participating in open-source projects
  • Experience writing software to support cloud services at scale
  • Design and develop APIs to support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation and deployment workflows
  • Automate validation with unit and integration tests
  • Ownership and health of CI/CD pipelines from dev to production
  • Ability to communicate design and quality strategy in written, visual, and oral formats
  • Experience with modern infrastructure tools and cloud-native technologies
  • Experience with Kubernetes Cluster API
  • Experience with Terraform
  • Experience with Tinkerbell
  • Practical experience with Azure, GCP, or AWS
  • Familiarity with CSI, CNI, and CRI and CNCF tooling
  • Upstream contribution in open source projects
  • Capability to refactor software to run in Kubernetes

NVIDIA Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NVIDIA and has not been reviewed or approved by NVIDIA.

  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity awards and a discounted ESPP are highlighted as core parts of total compensation, enabling employees to share in the company’s success. Stock-based compensation and the two-year lookback ESPP are consistently described as especially valuable.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is portrayed as robust, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options alongside mental health support and on-site care resources. Employer HSA contributions and wellness perks reinforce the depth of the offering.
  • Retirement Support Retirement programs are depicted as strong, featuring a meaningful 401(k) match with Roth options and support for Mega Backdoor Roth contributions. These elements position long-term savings as a notable advantage of the total rewards package.

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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
21,960 Employees
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”

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