Principal Cloud Security Architect & Platform Leader

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

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Security Engineering leader to own the DGX Cloud security design across tenancy, identity, supply chain and isolation. You will drive the multi-year architecture for a common security platform and embed with engineering teams to ship secure systems.

You will lead a small team of Principal Engineers, collaborate across platform and network security, and translate risk into actionable guidance for executives while advancing secure-by-design

Qualifications

• Security Engineering: Experience across software engineering, infrastructure, and security for large-scale platforms.
• Architecture at Fleet Scale: Proven security architecture ownership across multi-tenant systems.
• Production-Grade Coding: Hands-on with production services at scale.
• Emerging Technology: Awareness of AI-generated code and AI-assisted security analysis.
• Threat Modeling: Ability to threat model complex distributed systems and identify architectural gaps.
• Distributed Systems and Linux Depth: Cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, Linux security, and high-throughput multi-tenant environments.
• Technical Leadership and Influence: Build consensus among engineering leadership and executives.
• Leading Senior Engineers: Experience leading and growing senior technical talent from a small team of Principal Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the DGX Cloud security architecture and design bar across tenancy and workload isolation.
• Lead a small team of Principal Engineers and grow technical depth.
• Collaborate with NVIDIA's central security organization across platform, production engineering, and network security teams.
• Communicate risks and trade-offs to executives in clear, actionable terms.

Skills

Security engineering

Architecture

Threat modeling

Leadership

Distributed systems

Education

BS in CS/Engineering

MS/PhD in CS/EE

Equivalent experience 18+ years

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Security Engineering leader to own the DGX Cloud security design across tenancy, identity, supply chain and isolation. You will drive the multi-year architecture for a common security platform and embed with engineering teams to ship secure systems.

You will lead a small team of Principal Engineers, collaborate across platform and network security, and translate risk into actionable guidance for executives while advancing secure-by-design