Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer – EDA Clusters

NVIDIA Corporation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Security Engineer for EDA Clusters to design, deploy, and operate security controls across compute, storage, and networking. You’ll work with engineers to secure multi-day, high-value jobs in on-prem and multi-cloud environments.

You’ll implement detection, incident response, and policy-driven enforcement, collaborating with data center operations and CSP teams. A strong Linux background and scripting skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on infrastructure or infrastructure-security engineering across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Strong Linux depth — system level mastery, not just the console.
• Experience securing or operating compute fleets at scale: provisioning, lifecycle, and long-running jobs.
• Working networking expertise applied to large compute environments.
• Programming/scripting fluency (Python, Go, or shell) used for automation, detections, and tooling.
• Foundations in access control, authentication, segmentation, encryption, and vulnerability lifecycle.
• Track record of landing changes with partners who don’t report to you.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate security controls and telemetry for EDA compute, storage, and networking.
• Engineer around hard constraints to protect long-running jobs without degrading performance.
• Make the network and platform the control plane for protection.
• Instrument for detection and integrate signals into SIEM with actionable dashboards.
• Investigate and respond to EDA-specific threats and containment actions.
• Automate enforcement and evidence using IaC and policy-as-code.

Skills

Linux expertise

Security at scale

Python/Go/Shell

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent

Job description

Securing NVIDIA's EDA clusters is not a matter of deploying a standard security stack. The workloads are too large, too long-running, and too performance-sensitive for an off-the-shelf playbook to simply apply. That constraint is the job. You'll be an individual contributor on Infrastructure Security Engineering for EDA Clusters, the team that implements security controls across the compute, storage, and networking that NVIDIA's hardware engineers design silicon on - spanning on-prem data centers and multi-cloud. You will sit alongside the engineers who run these clusters 24x7, close enough to deploy a control, investigate a behavior, and change the running environment yourself.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and operate security controls and telemetry for EDA compute, storage, and networking - design, ship to production, then own them.
• Engineer around hard constraints. Protect multi-day, high-value compute jobs without degrading them. Where heavyweight in-node agents are not viable, build the workable answer instead.
• Make the network and platform the control plane. Protection can't depend solely on what runs inside the node.
• Instrument for detection. Collect and normalize security signals from the fleet into our SIEM, and build the detections and dashboards that turn it into something actionable. Log collection alone is not monitoring.
• Investigate and respond. Chase down EDA-specific threats and exposure, and execute containment and remediation hands-on with infrastructure and service owners.
• Automate enforcement and evidence. Infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code so secure configuration is the default state, with compliance evidence produced as an engineering output rather than a manual exercise.
• Run the lifecycle of the security technologies you own: selection, rollout, operation, and eventual replacement.
• Work across boundaries. Partner directly with data center operations, IT storage and networking, network engineering, CSP teams, and NVIDIA's central security organization on shared outcomes.
• Think like an adversary. Threat modeling and mitigation planning across network, storage, and compute.

What We Need To See

• 8+ years of hands-on infrastructure or infrastructure-security engineering across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Strong Linux depth - you are comfortable at the system level, not just the console level.
• Real experience operating or securing compute fleets at scale: provisioning, lifecycle, and the operational realities of long-running jobs.
• Working networking expertise applied to large compute environments.
• Programming/scripting fluency (Python, Go, or shell) used for automation, detection, and tooling you've shipped and maintained.
• Solid foundations in access control, authentication, segmentation, encryption, and vulnerability lifecycle.
• A track record of landing changes with partners who don't report to you.
• Clear written and verbal communication - credible with individual engineers and with leadership.
• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering field or equivalent experience.

Ways To Stand Out from the Crowd

• Security or platform engineering inside EDA, HPC, or large research-cluster environments.
• Breadth across security domains - IAM, EDR/XDR, CNAPP, CSPM, zero-trust architectures - or a demonstrated pattern of picking up new domains fast.
• Built or operated infrastructure security capabilities at a hyperscaler or a security product company - you engineered detection and enforcement systems rather than deploying someone else's.
• Experience with kernel- and fabric-level observability and enforcement - eBPF, in-line and out-of-band inspection, DPU/SmartNIC offload - as an alternative to heavyweight in-node agents.
• Contributions to open-source security or infrastructure tooling.

Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. We have some of the most forward-thinking and talented people in the world working for us and, due to outstanding growth, our world-class engineering teams are growing fast. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with real passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 24, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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