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NVIDIA's Developer Tools team is seeking a Senior Performance Analysis Platform Lead to guide architecture, compatibility, and integration across profiling services. This hands-on role resolves complex engineering challenges that span multiple technical areas. You will align teams around shared architecture and delivery goals while contributing directly to critical implementation work. The role offers broad influence over the quality, reliability, and evolution of performance-analysis technologies.
What You'll Be Doing:
Set technical direction for a secure, reliable, and extensible performance-analysis platform.
Align product goals and engineering decisions across frontend, backend, data, security, and infrastructure teams.
Lead end-to-end design and integration for complex capabilities that span multiple ownership areas.
Implement difficult cross-boundary work that validates key decisions and unblocks delivery.
Establish engineering standards for compatibility, quality, performance, and operational readiness.
Mentor senior engineers, clarify ownership, and drive complete product outcomes from design through release.
What We Need To See:
BS or MS degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree
12+ years of experience building and operating production software, including technical leadership for complex products or major platform capabilities.
Deep hands-on expertise in backend platforms or distributed systems, strong production ability in at least one language, and enough technical range to align specialists across the product.
Experience evolving APIs, events, saved state, or stored data without breaking existing users or deployments.
Practical knowledge of asynchronous failure modes, with depth in real-time collaboration, analytical services, secure multi-user products, workflow orchestration, or a comparable area.
Ability to trace a user workflow across browser and backend behavior, diagnose where it fails, and guide the responsible engineers toward a durable fix.
A record of turning prototypes or zero-to-one platforms into secure, observable, well-operated products through hands-on cross-team leadership.
Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers, negotiate technical tradeoffs, and maintain clear ownership while driving an integrated outcome.
Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:
Background in performance analysis, developer tools, observability, or collaborative analytical products.
Demonstrated ability to choose practical consistency and conflict-handling approaches for collaborative products.
Proven track record integrating browser applications with real-time services, generated contracts, durable persistence, or cloud infrastructure.
History of delivering enterprise identity, audit, secure sharing, or reusable platform capabilities adopted across teams.
Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. As you plan your future, see what we can offer to you and your family www.nvidiabenefits.com/
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
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 or MS degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 12+ years building and operating production software, including technical leadership for complex products or major platform capabilities
- Deep hands-on expertise in backend platforms or distributed systems and strong production ability in at least one language
- Experience evolving APIs, events, saved state, or stored data without breaking existing users or deployments
- Practical knowledge of asynchronous failure modes and experience in real-time collaboration, analytical services, secure multi-user products, or workflow orchestration
- Ability to trace user workflows across browser and backend behavior, diagnose failures, and guide durable fixes
- Record of turning prototypes or zero-to-one platforms into secure, observable, well-operated products through hands-on cross-team leadership
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers, negotiate technical tradeoffs, and maintain clear ownership while driving integrated outcomes
- Background in performance analysis, developer tools, observability, or collaborative analytical products
- Experience integrating browser applications with real-time services, generated contracts, durable persistence, or cloud infrastructure
- History delivering enterprise identity, audit, secure sharing, or reusable platform capabilities across teams
NVIDIA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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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.
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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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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.”
