Senior Software Engineer, Object Storage - DGX Cloud

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Object Storage to design, implement, and extend our internal storage system. You will contribute to scalable storage services powering AI/ML research and world-building projects, with emphasis on reliability and performance.

You should have 8+ years in distributed systems, strong Python/Go/C/C++ skills, and a track record delivering large-scale storage software. This is a full-time, on-site role with equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• Consistent track record of developing object storage services and an understanding of data availability, durability and fault tolerance.
• Ownership of product delivery from inception to support.
• Great communication and presentation skills.
• Experience developing distributed systems with Python, Go, C/C++, or similar.
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, development, and testing of the object storage system.
• Develop storage capabilities to support NVIDIA research teams and users.
• Extend availability and reliability of deployments at scale (10k+ nodes, exabytes).
• Analyze and improve system performance at all levels.
• Automate storage infrastructure end-to-end including provisioning, management and monitoring.
• Make upstream contributions to open source storage codebases.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Go

C/C++

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

Job description

NVIDIA is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Object Storage to design, implement, and extend the capabilities of our internal object storage system. This system is a core service that is critical to NVIDIA AI/ML research teams creating best of breed generative AI systems and pioneering world models. We are looking for a software developer who has a deep understanding of object storage, outstanding architecture and design skills and a track record in writing and delivering large-scale storage services.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Contributing to the design, development, and testing of our object storage system
• Developing storage capabilities to support NVIDIA research teams and other users
• Extending the availability and reliability of our deployments at scale – 10k+ nodes, exabytes of data
• Analyzing and improving system performance at all levels
• Automating storage infrastructure end-to-end including provisioning, management and monitoring
• Making contributions upstream to open source storage codebases

What We Need To See:

• Consistent track record of developing object storage services and an understanding of strategies for addressing data availability, durability, and fault tolerance
• History of ownership of product delivery from inception to support
• Great communication and presentation skills
• Prior experience developing distributed systems with Python, Go, C/C++, or similar
• Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience
• 8+ yrs of relevant experience

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• You have developed and delivered major components of a distributed storage system that has been deployed at exabyte scale
• Strong experience with concurrency models and primitives (threads, event loops, distributed locking, etc.)
• Skilled with building and delivering cloud services, with specific focus on storage or data systems.
• You have made sustained contributions to open source projects

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. We are looking for great people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 11, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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