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# System Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

- **Company:** NVIDIA Ltd.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $152,000.0 - $241,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, Linux, File Systems, Distributed Systems, Job Scheduling, Python (Programming Language), System Software, Large Language Models, Concurrency, Build Tools
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gm0d0m

## About the Role

+ B.S. CS/EE (or equivalent experience)

 + 5+ years developing and operating production software in Go and/or Python, ideally in large codebases

 + Strong Linux fundamentals: processes, filesystems, permissions, synchronization/locks, concurrency, and debugging

 + Solid distributed-systems thinking: failures, retries/timeouts, backoff, idempotency, and operational rigor

 + Experience building long-runtime automation or services on shared compute clusters (batch schedulers, build systems)

 + Ability to translate ambitious, high-level goals into a safe delivery plan (instrumentation, staged rollout, measurable outcomes)

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

 + Hands-on experience with shared filesystems at scale (NFS), or coordination patterns on eventually-consistent storage

 + Experience with batch job scheduling, shared compute fleets, or build systems

 + Track record of incremental modernization (tests, shadow runs, canaries, rollback plans)

 + Experience partitioning/optimizing metadata-heavy systems and reducing I/O or R/W hot spots

 + Strong incident/debug tactics: clear root-cause analysis, remediation, and guardrails as well as rapid comprehension and ownership of unfamiliar codebases in any language (including LLM-generated code) to implement high-leverage changes



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