Senior SDN & Cloud Networking Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking to design and build scalable SDN solutions for NVIDIA's AI Clouds hosting GPU workloads. You’ll cover the full SDN stack, including control and data planes, reliability, and production observability.

The role involves developing multi-tenant cloud SDN software (OVS/OVN/OpenFlow), building IaaS network orchestration, and contributing to upstream OSS projects.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of proven experience in software development for large-scale distributed environments.
• Expert-level knowledge of OVN, OVS, OpenFlow, and modern network protocols.
• Strong programming skills in C and Go; advanced scripting in Bash and Python.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, practical experience deploying and supporting CNIs (OVN-Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment tools (Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux).
• Experience designing and operating complex, multi-stage CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience developing secure, high-performance services using gRPC and REST with TLS and strong authentication.
• Strong knowledge of datacenter routing, switching, and Linux host/VM networking.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop next-generation multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software (OVS, OVN, OpenFlow).
• Build Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration and services using gRPC and REST to support tenant workload security and performance SLAs for BMaaS, VMaaS, and Kubernetes.
• Drive upstream contributions to OVN-Kubernetes and related open-source projects.
• Develop software for network observability — monitoring, telemetry, intelligent metering, and performance analysis.
• Operate and support OVS-OVN based SDN solutions in large-scale NVIDIA AI Cloud environments.
• Own end-to-end observability for the SDN stack — build and maintain monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and dashboarding to ensure real-time insight into network health, performance, and tenant SLAs.
• Design, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) across Linux host networking, OVS, OVN, and Kubernetes CNIs.
• Implement GitOps approaches or related experience for secure, seamless integration with cloud infrastructure.
• Drive reliability through incident management, resource monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and network engineering teams on production readiness and operational tooling.

Skills

C programming

Go programming

Kubernetes

OpenFlow/OVS/OVN

Bash scripting

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

gRPC/REST

Terraform/Ansible

Observability tooling

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

ArgoCD

Flux

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking to design and build scalable SDN solutions for NVIDIA's AI Clouds hosting GPU workloads. You’ll cover the full SDN stack, including control and data planes, reliability, and production observability.

The role involves developing multi-tenant cloud SDN software (OVS/OVN/OpenFlow), building IaaS network orchestration, and contributing to upstream OSS projects.