Senior Data Platform Engineer: Equity & Trusted Pipelines

NVIDIA; Washington; On-site; USD 140,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA’s DGX Cloud organization is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Navigator data platform. You will own end‑to‑end data pipelines and build reliable, governed data products supporting fleet health, capacity, utilization, cost, and operational decisions.

You will work across ingestion, transformation, data quality, platform architecture, security, observability, and self‑service consumption, while mentoring engineers and expanding Spark/SQL and cloud workflows in production.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience building and operating production software/data platforms.
• Strong software‑engineering fundamentals; Python and SQL focus.
• Hands-on experience in distributed data processing (e.g., Spark) or databases at scale.
• Experience in cloud production environments, CI/CD, monitoring.
• Secure platform development knowledge (IAM, secrets management, least privilege).
• Ability to work through ambiguity and communicate with users, partner teams, and engineers.
• Experience with AI agents and LLM‑enabled workflow automation.

Responsibilities

• Own systems end to end from needs through architecture, deployment, observability, and support.
• Construct data pipelines and products for fleet, capacity, utilization, and cost metrics.
• Build shared libraries, deployment tooling, and data contracts to speed up delivery.
• Engineer reliable distributed workloads; ensure retries, schema evolution, and backfills.
• Apply security best practices across the system lifecycle and access controls.
• Improve quality with automated tests, data-quality checks, lineage, and monitoring.
• Deliver usable data through modeled tables, APIs, dashboards, and internal apps.
• Mentor engineers and elevate team architecture, testing, and operational practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Debugging

Communication

Leadership

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Airflow

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

NVIDIA’s DGX Cloud organization is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Navigator data platform. You will own end‑to‑end data pipelines and build reliable, governed data products supporting fleet health, capacity, utilization, cost, and operational decisions.

You will work across ingestion, transformation, data quality, platform architecture, security, observability, and self‑service consumption, while mentoring engineers and expanding Spark/SQL and cloud workflows in production.