Senior Platform Engineer: Self‑Service Kubernetes & Infra

NVIDIA Corporation; California; On-site; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking engineers to design and operate a governed cloud-scale infrastructure platform powering our EDA and hardware teams. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, build self-service tools, and extend the platform with controllers and operators to enable scalable production workflows.

The role emphasizes strong Go/Python programming, distributed systems experience, and on-call responsibilities across multiple sites, including onboarding teams and ensuring security and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience supporting large-scale production systems.
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong programming in Go or Python, with solid data structures, algorithms, testing, and design.

Responsibilities

• Own the lifecycle of the Kubernetes clusters/platform, including control plane, node lifecycle, upgrades, provisioning, storage, and networking.
• Build self-service capabilities for compute, secrets, certificates, DNS, access, deployment.
• Extend Kubernetes with controllers and operators, using open-source or in-house solutions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Incidents

On-call

Communication

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Cluster API

Ceph

Cilium

Argo CD

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking engineers to design and operate a governed cloud-scale infrastructure platform powering our EDA and hardware teams. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, build self-service tools, and extend the platform with controllers and operators to enable scalable production workflows.

The role emphasizes strong Go/Python programming, distributed systems experience, and on-call responsibilities across multiple sites, including onboarding teams and ensuring security and