Senior SDN Systems Engineer - Cloud Networking Architect

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

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Senior System Software Engineer, SDN to design, build, and operate scalable SDN solutions for NVIDIA's AI Clouds hosting GPU-accelerated workloads, including hyperscale multi-node training, inference, and cloud gaming.

You will own the SDN stack lifecycle—from control/data plane software design to reliability engineering, CI/CD, observability, and incident response, across OVS/OVN, OpenFlow, and Kubernetes CNIs.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in CS or related 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

Go

Bash

Python

Kubernetes

OVS

OVN

OpenFlow

gRPC

REST

TLS

Strong authentication

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Equivalent experience

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

ArgoCD

Flux

GitLab

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior System Software Engineer, SDN to design, build, and operate scalable SDN solutions for NVIDIA's AI Clouds hosting GPU-accelerated workloads, including hyperscale multi-node training, inference, and cloud gaming.

You will own the SDN stack lifecycle—from control/data plane software design to reliability engineering, CI/CD, observability, and incident response, across OVS/OVN, OpenFlow, and Kubernetes CNIs.