Distinguished Engineer, DGX Cloud Cluster Operations

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 489,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the Production Engineering organization for DGX Cloud capacity. This senior role focuses on building scalable production systems, with deep attention to Kubernetes, automation, and cross-organizational collaboration.

The engineer will define architectural standards and drive enduring improvements across on‑prem, hyperscalers, and partner environments. The candidate will guide cross-team investments, own operational scheduling, and ensure

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in CS, EE, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 18+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Technical leadership at principal or distinguished level in production engineering, SRE, infra software, or cloud platforms.
• Track record defining operating models and architectural direction across multiple domains.
• Leadership of large, cross-team technical efforts from concept to production.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes-based production systems or distributed systems operations.
• Strong software engineering in Python or Go.
• Understanding of Linux, networking, containers, and production reliability.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-range technical strategy for operating DGX Cloud clusters across data centres, hyperscalers, and NeoCloud.
• Set architecture direction for cluster lifecycle, runtime delivery, restoration, and release readiness.
• Drive cross-organizational investments to improve production readiness and cross-team coordination.
• Make high-impact technical decisions that align platform, hardware, provider, and service teams.
• Develop workflows and interfaces across Kubernetes, on-prem and bare-metal operations, and service reliability domains.
• Build automation, APIs, and readiness gates to move capacity into stable production.
• Establish ownership, reduce manual input, and improve release safety across DGX Cloud environments.
• Lead with engineering judgment to improve operability, resilience, and performance across clusters.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Software engineering

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/EE

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the Production Engineering organization for DGX Cloud capacity. This senior role focuses on building scalable production systems, with deep attention to Kubernetes, automation, and cross-organizational collaboration.

The engineer will define architectural standards and drive enduring improvements across on‑prem, hyperscalers, and partner environments. The candidate will guide cross-team investments, own operational scheduling, and ensure