Senior Backend Platform Engineer - Scalable Performance

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, California, is seeking a Senior Backend Platform Engineer to design and build production backend services for interactive performance analysis of profiling data.

You will improve data processing, scalability, and reliability, collaborating with frontend, security, product, and source-system teams to deliver durable interfaces and complete customer workflows.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years building production backend services, distributed/analytical data platforms.
• Strong fundamentals: automated tests, failure handling, diagnostics, API evolution.
• Experience with asynchronous backends and real-time stateful systems.
• Strong SQL skills for ingestion, schema evolution, and data modeling.
• Ability to measure system behavior via logs, metrics, traces, tests.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production backend services for interactive performance analysis and collaborative workflows.
• Improve responsiveness, scalability, and efficiency of data-intensive product experiences.
• Develop reliable capabilities for onboarding, validating, organizing, and serving large performance datasets.
• Create durable service interfaces and data models that evolve with product needs.
• Engineer resilient behavior for concurrency, partial failures, retries, and recovery.
• Establish testing, observability, and operational practices for the capabilities you own.
• Partner with frontend, security, product, and source-system teams to deliver complete customer workflows.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

SQL

Backend engineering

Testing & diagnostics

Concurrency & reliability

Education

BS in Computer Science or related

MS in Computer Science or related

Tools

WebSockets

Pub/Sub

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, California, is seeking a Senior Backend Platform Engineer to design and build production backend services for interactive performance analysis of profiling data.

You will improve data processing, scalability, and reliability, collaborating with frontend, security, product, and source-system teams to deliver durable interfaces and complete customer workflows.