Distinguished Engineer, Production Engineering, Cluster Management

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 serve as a senior technical leader in the Production Engineering organization. The person will be passionate about leading cluster activities within DGX Cloud GPU capacity. Production Engineering at NVIDIA is tasked with ensuring large-scale production systems remain reliable, manageable, and progressively automated across DGX Cloud resources. Our method combines software engineering, systems engineering, and production expertise. This allows us to develop platforms, workflows, and operating models that preserve GPU infrastructure health, scalability, and availability for researchers and customers. This position focuses on the operational structure for DGX Cloud clusters across on-prem, hyperscalers, and NVIDIA Cloud Partner environments. The scope includes the engineering connections needed to ensure DGX Cloud capacity is fully functional in production: Kubernetes service management, provider and hardware readiness, on-prem infrastructure handling, deployment and operational preparedness, service reliability collaborations, and the processes that integrate these areas into a unified production system. This is a hands-on Distinguished Engineer role for a deeply technical leader who will define architectural direction for cluster operations throughout DGX Cloud. The right person will combine software engineering rigor, systems depth, and production judgment. They will set technical strategy and establish operating standards. They will guide the framework’s evolution for production operations. They will drive progress on cross-organizational capabilities to keep DGX Cloud capacity usable, supportable, and improving at scale. This role requires both the ability to go deep in building and implementation and the ability to lead through influence across multiple teams and high-consequence production outcomes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Define the long-range technical strategy for operating DGX Cloud clusters consistently across local data centres, hyperscalers, and NeoCloud environments
• Define the architectural direction and fundamental operating standards for cluster lifecycle, runtime delivery, restoration, release readiness, and steady-state operability concerning DGX Cloud capacity
• Guide the roadmap and execution of critical cross-organizational investments that improve production readiness, operational safety, performance, and cross-team coordination
• Make and influence high-impact technical decisions that build how platform, hardware, provider, and service teams work together to operate DGX Cloud resources in production
• Build durable workflows, interfaces, and engineering handshakes across Kubernetes production service, provider and hardware preparation, on-prem and bare-metal restructuring operations, and service-layer reliability domains
• Build and evolve the automation, APIs, operating workflows, and readiness gates required to move new capacity into stable production and keep existing capacity balanced
• Implement production operating approaches that lower manual input, establish clear ownership responsibilities, and increase consistency, traceability, and release safety within DGX Cloud environments
• Partner closely with platform teams, hardware and provider engineering, service owners, and other Production Engineering leaders to identify repeated friction and convert it into durable improvements in software, processes, and operational interfaces
• Raise the engineering bar for operability, resilience, scalability, and performance across cluster operations through build leadership, architecture review, and technical standards

What we need to see:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• 18+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, or production environments
• Confirmed company-level technical leadership at principal, distinguished, or equivalent scope in production engineering, SRE, infrastructure software, or cloud platforms
• Consistent track record of defining operating models, architectural direction, and engineering standards across multiple technical domains and organizations
• Consistent record leading large, cross-team technical efforts from concept through production, including aligning collaborators, navigating for clarity and delivering measurable outcomes
• Deep experience with one or more of these areas: Kubernetes-based production systems, infrastructure automation, or distributed systems operations
• Strong software engineering skills in languages such as Python, Go, or similar low-level programming languages
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, Linux, networking, containers, and production reliability concerns
• Experience crafting operational workflows, APIs, service interfaces, or automation frameworks that become the standard way teams run production systems
• Strong architectural judgment and a validated history of simplifying complex operational problems through reusable software, clear technical strategy, and durable engineering direction

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Defined the structural foundation for a large, heterogeneous infrastructure environment spanning multiple platforms or providers
• Established widely used operating standards, architectures, APIs, or workflows that improved reliability, operability, or performance at company scale
• Built automation and engineering interfaces that connect platform teams, infrastructure teams, and service owners into a consistent production system
• Experience improving production readiness, restoration, runtime safety, or release quality for large-scale infrastructure
• Equally comfortable setting technical strategy, reviewing architecture at scale, writing code, and driving adoption across organizational boundaries

This role is purposely assigned to the cross-domain production operating model for DGX Cloud capacity. It does not involve a shared platform-software function for typical automation services. Success is achieved by making sure the larger DGX Cloud cluster estate functions optimally in a live environment. The position calls for strong technical leadership, consistent workflows, clear limits, and productive cross-team engineering coordination.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 320,000 USD - 488,750 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 7, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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