Senior SDN Systems Engineer – Cloud Networking & Telemetry

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

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking an experienced Systems Software Engineer to design and build multi-tenant cloud SDN solutions (OVS/OVN/OpenFlow) and deliver robust network services across large-scale AI cloud environments.

You will own observability, CI/CD pipelines, and secure, high-performance gRPC/REST services while collaborating with SRE, DevOps, and networking teams to meet tenant SLAs and reliability targets.

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 IaaS virtual network orchestration and services using gRPC and REST.
• 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 NVIDIA AI Cloud environments.
• Own end-to-end observability for the SDN stack - monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, dashboards.
• Design, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) across Linux host networking, OVS, OVN, Kubernetes CNIs.
• Implement GitOps approaches for secure 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.

Skills

C

Go

Bash

Python

Kubernetes

OpenFlow

OVS/OVN knowledge

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

MS in Computer Science

Tools

OVS

OVN

OpenFlow

Kubernetes CNIs

Ansible

Terraform

ArgoCD

Flux

gRPC

REST

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking an experienced Systems Software Engineer to design and build multi-tenant cloud SDN solutions (OVS/OVN/OpenFlow) and deliver robust network services across large-scale AI cloud environments.

You will own observability, CI/CD pipelines, and secure, high-performance gRPC/REST services while collaborating with SRE, DevOps, and networking teams to meet tenant SLAs and reliability targets.