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# Senior Data Engineer, Real-Time Data Platform

- **Company:** NVIDIA Ltd.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Big Data, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Apache Spark, Build Management, Data Lakes, Information Technology, Real Time Data, Apache Kafka
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_a8010f36c904044a978f59a004734974

## About the Role

* Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)

 * 8+ years of software engineering experience

 * Passion about Big data and large scale distributed systems

 * Expert knowledge with building and operating multi-petabyte data lakes

 * Experience working with Spark and Trino compute and expertise with open table format such as delta lake and/or iceberg etc

 * Excellent SW development skills in one or more: Java/Scala/Python/Go

 * Experience with building real time streaming applications with kafka etc

 * Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to identify and communicate data driven insights

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

 * Contributions to open source

 * Experience with operating large scale distributed systems with strong SLAs

## Description

At NVIDIA, we pride ourselves on data-driven decision-making, and the data science team is at the heart of this initiative. We are looking for an excellent Sr. Data engineer with extensive data engineering experience for our data science platform supporting NVIDIA's cloud platform services. Our data science platform serves as the basis for advanced real time data analytics, streaming, data lake and sophisticated ML/AI training with offline/online inferencing for NVIDIA's cloud services.

What you'll be doing:

 * Design and implement critical high performance, large scale services and libraries

 * Build streaming data pipelines for collecting & processing data from multiple data sources: from the point of ingestion to useful insights

 * Design and build data Lakehouse architecture for our customers

 * Partner with our other engineering and business teams to integrate your amazing innovations and algorithms into our production systems

 * Automate everything for measuring, testing, updating, monitoring and alerting the data platform