Principal SDN Engineer — Cloud Networking & Observability

NVIDIA Corporation; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Principal System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking, to design, build, and operate scalable SDN solutions for its AI Cloud platforms hosting GPU workloads. You will drive end‑to‑end SDN stack development, observability, and production readiness across large multi‑node environments.

You will work on control and data plane software, contribute to open‑source projects, and own CI/CD pipelines with GitOps for secure cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.
• 15+ years in software development for large‑scale distributed environments.
• Expert in OVN, OVS, OpenFlow and modern network protocols.
• Strong C and Go programming; Bash and Python scripting.
• Deep Kubernetes experience with CNIs (OVN‑Kubernetes).
• IaC and deployment tools (Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Secure, high‑performance services using gRPC/REST with TLS.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop next‑gen multi‑tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software (OVS/OVN/OpenFlow).
• Build IaaS network orchestration using gRPC and REST for tenant SLAs.
• Contribute upstream to OVN‑Kubernetes and related projects.
• Develop software for network observability including telemetry and dashboards.
• Operate OVS‑OVN based SDN solutions at scale in NVIDIA AI Cloud.
• Own end‑to‑end observability with monitoring, tracing and dashboards.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines across Linux host networking and CNIs.
• Implement GitOps for secure cloud integration.
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps and network engineering for production readiness.

Skills

C

Go

Bash

Python

Kubernetes

gRPC

REST

OpenFlow

OVS

OVN

IaC

CI/CD

TLS

Observability

Education

BSc/MSc in Computer Science

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Jaeger

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Ansible

Terraform

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Principal System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking, to design, build, and operate scalable SDN solutions for its AI Cloud platforms hosting GPU workloads. You will drive end‑to‑end SDN stack development, observability, and production readiness across large multi‑node environments.

You will work on control and data plane software, contribute to open‑source projects, and own CI/CD pipelines with GitOps for secure cloud infrastructure.