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# Senior Systems Software Engineer - Infrastructure

- **Company:** NVIDIA Ltd.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $224,000.0 - $356,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, BIOS, Continuous Integration, Database Theory, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Embedded Software, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Scripting, Mttr, Caching, Kubernetes
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8bc093d04176918d

## About the Role

* BS or MS degree in EE/CS/CE (or equivalent experience)
 * 12+ years of infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering
 * Deep expertise in modern CI/CD and test automation architecture: pipeline design, build system internals, caching, testing frameworks, and the failure modes for architectures that only appear at scale
 * Strong Python fluency, infrastructure-as-code experience, and scripting ability
 * History in distributed systems, cloud or on-prem compute fleets, containers, and orchestration (K8s or equivalent)
 * Strong understanding of database concepts, schema design, object modeling, SQL or non-SQL
 * Past ownership of cross-org production system(s) and all the lessons you've learned from supporting them
 * Outstanding communication, leading, and teaching skills: the ability to articulate WHY a solution is correct, write clear requirements, review critically, and guide others to understanding
 * History of growing other engineers, formally or informally

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

 * Sense of humor heavily encouraged, but not required
 * Track record of writing technical proposals, design docs, or architecture decisions that others have acted on independently
 * Experience using AI-assisted development tools: knowing when to trust, when to verify, and when to throw away the output
 * Experience in developing device BIOS, firmware, or other low-level embedded software
 * Pride and passion evident in your work

## Description

* Set technical direction for major platform areas, leading the architecture, roadmap, and long-term health across multiple product cycles
 * Design and lead infrastructure initiatives that span team boundaries, building alignment with firmware, hardware, and business partners
 * Own platform reliability: define SLIs and SLOs, instrument what isn't measured today, cut MTTR, and automate the incident response when the platform breaks
 * Find the automation opportunities nobody has asked for yet, make the case for it and deliver
 * Architect and invent AI-powered workflows that multiply everyone's output
 * Set the technical bar through design review, technical writing, and mentoring, so the team makes better decisions without you in the room


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