Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & Self-Service Infra

2100 NVIDIA USA; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is hiring engineers to build and operate the governed infrastructure platform behind our EDA and hardware teams, enabling a self‑service path from source to production across cloud and on‑premises sites.

You will own the Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, bare‑metal provisioning, storage, and networking, and extend Kubernetes with controllers and operators. You’ll collaborate across EDA, infrastructure, networking, and hardware teams to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience supporting large-scale production systems.
• Strong programming experience in Go or Python with solid data structures, algorithms, testing and design.
• Real production experience operating Kubernetes or a large-scale platform with ownership of clusters/components.
• Experience building automation for distributed infrastructure (reconciliation loops, controllers, operators, self-healing).
• Understanding of performance, security, reliability, fault tolerance, state management and data consistency in complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters the platform runs on including control plane and node lifecycle.
• Manage bare-metal provisioning, storage, and networking under the clusters.
• Build self-service capabilities for compute, secrets, certificates, DNS, access, deployment.
• Extend Kubernetes with controllers and operators using open-source projects or bespoke code.
• Own CI/CD pipelines and shared platform services, ensuring secure production paths by default.
• Onboard new teams/sites to the platform as a repeatable process.
• Collaborate with EDA, infrastructure, networking, storage, and hardware teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Share on-call duties including incident response and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Incident diagnosis

Team collaboration

Education

BS in Computer Science/Engineering/Physics/Mathematics

Tools

Cluster API

Metal3

Ceph

Cilium

Job description

NVIDIA is hiring engineers to build and operate the governed infrastructure platform behind our EDA and hardware teams, enabling a self‑service path from source to production across cloud and on‑premises sites.

You will own the Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, bare‑metal provisioning, storage, and networking, and extend Kubernetes with controllers and operators. You’ll collaborate across EDA, infrastructure, networking, and hardware teams to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure at scale.