Senior System Software Engineer - Data Platform Observability

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 287,500; Full time

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Gruppe is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to lead the development of their next-generation Data & Observability Platform in Santa Clara, California. This role focuses on high-performance ingestion, governance systems, and user experience improvements while ensuring platform reliability.

The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in full-stack software development, strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python and Java, and expertise in observability tools like Grafana. A competitive salary range of 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD, along with equity and benefits, is offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-stack software development experience with a focus on Data Platforms or Infrastructure Tools.
• Proficiency in backend systems programming and frontend web frameworks (Python, JS, Java, Rust, Go, React).
• Experience deploying complex stateful services on Kubernetes using Helm, Terraform, or Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Design and build centralized telemetry pipelines capable of handling massive scale.
• Implement technical infrastructure for data governance, policy engines, and secure credential management.
• Develop a web interface and APIs that unify distinct observability signals.

Skills

Full-stack software development

Observability platforms expertise

Infrastructure-as-Code

Streaming & Storage knowledge

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

Grafana

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

NVIDIA’s Hardware Infrastructure organization is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to lead the evolution of our next-generation Data & Observability Platform. We serve and collaborate directly with NVIDIA’s rapidly growing AI, HW, and SW engineering and research teams across the company. We are looking for a Full-Stack technical lead who is not afraid to dig deep into infrastructure. You will be the technical anchor for our Observability stack, driving the transition to a modern tooling that is best fit for our customers and use cases. You will build the centralized platform that thousands of NVIDIA engineers rely on to visualize chip telemetry, debug distributed pipelines, and ensure platform reliability.

What you’ll be doing:

• Architect High-Performance Ingestion: Design and build centralized telemetry pipelines capable of handling massive scale. You will solve global latency challenges by implementing modern, push-based edge collection architectures to replace legacy proxy models.
• Build Policy Enforcement Systems: Design and implement the technical infrastructure for data governance, policy engines, access control enforcement points, secure credential management, and audit logging. Looking for someone who has built governance controls into a platform, not just administered them.
• Focus on User Experience: Develop a modern, web interface and APIs that unify distinct observability signals into a seamless, consolidated user experience.
• Optimize Storage & Cost: Implement cost-effective tiered storage architectures. You will define strategies for routing high-volume data to cold storage solutions to reduce costs while maintaining multi-year data retention.
• Drive Platform Automation: Architect workflow orchestration systems to automate platform maintenance, data lifecycle management, and complex pipeline operations.
• Work in a diverse team to provide operational and strategic data to empower our engineers and researchers to improve performance, productivity, and efficiency to continuously improve quality, workloads, and processes through better observability.

What we need to see:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of full-stack software development experience with a focus on Data Platforms or Infrastructure Tools.
• Strong Full-Stack Fluency: Proficiency in high-performance backend systems programming and modern frontend web frameworks for building responsive user interfaces (Python, JS, Java, Rust, Go, React, or similar).
• Observability Expertise: Experience with observability platforms such as Apache Spark, Elastic/Open Search, Grafana, Prometheus, and other similar open-source tools. Hands-on experience operating and extending the Grafana Ecosystem or ELK stack at scale. You understand the internals of time-series databases and inverted indexes.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience deploying complex stateful services on Kubernetes using Helm, Terraform, or Ansible.
• Streaming & Storage: Familiarity with event streaming and modern data lake formats.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience writing Custom Grafana data source Plugins or backend plugins in Go.
• Background with migrating legacy monoliths to microservices or Vector-based pipelines.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) collector configuration, writing custom processors, or instrumentation SDKs.
• Background in Data Governance, including implementation of Policy-as-Code or compliance frameworks in a regulated environment.

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. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 1, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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.