Senior SDN Systems Engineer — Cloud Networking & CI/CD

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

Job summary

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

This role covers the full lifecycle of the SDN stack, from design and development of control and data plane software to ensuring production reliability through CI/CD, observability, and incident response.

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.

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.

Skills

C programming

Go programming

Bash scripting

Python scripting

Kubernetes

gRPC

REST APIs

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

ArgoCD

Flux

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

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

This role covers the full lifecycle of the SDN stack, from design and development of control and data plane software to ensuring production reliability through CI/CD, observability, and incident response.