Senior Cloud Platform Engineer AI-Driven, Scalable Backend

NVIDIA Corporation

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 168,000 - 270,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking experienced backend/platform engineers to lead cloud VM platform initiatives from architecture through deployment. You will design, build, and operate scalable services that support secure, isolated agent workloads.

The role emphasizes automation, infrastructure provisioning, VM lifecycle management, and collaboration with NVIDIA teams to deliver dependable platform capabilities, with focus on reliability, performance, and security.

Qualifications

8+ years of experience in software, platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering with backend or distributed systems.
Strong understanding of distributed-systems concepts including service communication, asynchronous processing, failure handling, retries, idempotency, and eventual consistency.
Familiarity with PostgreSQL and MongoDB including data modeling, migrations, and performance.
Understanding of secure software development, cloud security, identity and access management, secrets management, and network security.
Experience with AI-native development and coding agents to multiply developer efficiency.

Responsibilities

Lead cloud VM platform initiatives from architecture and systems design through implementation, testing, and deployment.
Design, build, and operate scalable services that support secure, isolated agent workloads.
Develop automation for infrastructure provisioning, VM lifecycle management, application delivery, configuration, monitoring, and remediation.
Collaborate with engineering teams across NVIDIA to translate business and AI workflow requirements into dependable platform capabilities.
Improve the platform’s reliability, scalability, observability, performance, and operational efficiency.