Senior System Software Engineer

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Santa Clara, CA, USA
In-Office
152K-288K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Hardware • Robotics • Metaverse
The Role
Develop scalable cloud infrastructure and system software focused on reliability, performance, resource management, automated recovery, metrics, alerting, and storage. Design and implement microservices, system architecture, and complete development lifecycles using Java and modern cloud technologies. Analyze system data, improve predictability, contribute to testing and documentation, and provide technical leadership to team members.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are now looking for a Senior System Software Engineer. NVIDIA is the leading artificial intelligence computing company and paving the way with innovations in self-driving cars, machine learning, supercomputing, gaming and visualization. NVIDIA gives automakers, research institutions, cloud providers, large companies, and start-ups the power and flexibility to develop and deploy breakthrough artificial intelligence systems. We are an enthusiastic and dedicated team at the forefront of the latest science and technology trends. Working together, we provide a private on-site cloud solution that enables the rest of the organization to quickly release high-quality software. Are you passionate about infrastructure and looking for complex and challenging issues? Are you ready to build the next generation of cloud services, design innovative solutions that address the needs of a whole organization? Then we are excited to have a motivated person like you!


What you'll be doing:

  • Innovate to provide solutions to increase system reliability and performance
  • Design and develop creative scalable cloud solutions with a major focus on performance, scalability
  • Participate in the design, implementation, documentation of system architecture initiatives and full development life cycles.
  • Working on challenging problems to increase system reliability and performance such as job scheduling, resource management and automated recovery.
  • Build complete solutions including Metrics, Alert and Storage Services.
  • Dig into data, analyze and apply analytics to improve the performance/predictability of the system.
  • Provide technical leadership to other team members and be a great teamplayer

What we need to see:

  • 3+ years of proven experience and a degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • Proficient in design and development of Microservices using Java technologies.
  • Background in developing large scale cloud infrastructure applications.
  • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience in Databases both SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (Elastic search, etc)
  • Solid understanding of various technologies (Kubernetes, Dockers, Kafka etc)
  • Experience with Web Services (SOAP/REST), Jenkins, Git/Perforce, Scalable storage.
  • Passionate for automated testing (TDD/Unit tests/ Scalable Testing)
  • Experience with UI technologies

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Ability to tackle large problems and break them down into simple sub problems to implement effective solutions.
  • Background in designing high performant scalable software systems with strong focus to optimize cost.
  • Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic environment.
  • Strong commitment to get the most performance out of a system being worked on.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are:
152,000 USD – 241,500 USD for Level 3; and 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 17, 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

  • 3+ years of proven experience
  • Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • Proficiency designing and developing microservices using Java technologies
  • Experience developing large-scale cloud infrastructure applications
  • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with SQL databases, including MySQL
  • Experience with NoSQL databases, including Elasticsearch
  • Understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, and Kafka
  • Experience with SOAP and REST web services
  • Experience with Jenkins and Git or Perforce
  • Experience with scalable storage
  • Experience with automated testing, TDD, unit testing, or scalable testing
  • Experience with UI technologies

NVIDIA Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Feedback suggests equity grants, stock options/RSUs, and a discounted ESPP materially boost total compensation and can deliver significant wealth-building when the stock performs well.
  • Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests medical, dental, and vision plans with in-network preventive care at 100%, telehealth, and concierge-style support are comprehensive and valued.
  • Parental & Family Support — Feedback suggests up to 22 weeks fully paid parental leave, fertility coverage, and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement provide strong family-focused benefits.

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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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