Cloud Platform Software Engineer - Platform APIs Job Santa Clara area,California USA,Software Development

Are you passionate about Kubernetes and AI and want to help build the best platform for ML/AI infrastructure? Do you thrive when your work directly empowers teams to push the boundaries of what’s possible? We’re the Platform API team within NVIDIA’s DGX Cloud organization – a collaborative group of cloud platform engineers, architects, and SREs who are passionate about building and nurturing the declarative, Kubernetes‑native control plane that powers GPU‑accelerated infrastructure across multiple cloud providers.

Together, we’re empowering the world’s leading AI teams to train and deploy at datacenter scale.

We design and extend Kube‑like APIs, and we craft Go‑based reconciliation controllers that thoughtfully turn high‑level intent into production‑ready AI infrastructure. We take pride in owning our code end‑to‑end, and we care deeply about the full lifecycle of multi‑cloud GPU clusters, from customer onboarding and provisioning through upgrades and decommissioning. We partner closely with our runtime, cloud architecture, observability, and storage teams to solve sophisticated distributed systems challenges together.

As a team we’re strengthening NVIDIA’s approach to Cloud Native development.

What you will be doing:

Develop software systems to support large‑scale deployments of cloud infrastructure
Design and develop APIs to support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation and deployment workflows
Contribute to multiple source code projects to fulfill NVIDIA requirements with software services
Work and collaborate with engineering managers, architects, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver high quality software
Automate the validation of software solutions with unit and integration tests
Participate in the ownership and health of CI/CD pipelines from dev to production environments
Collaborate with other specialists for feedback on proposed designs and product direction
Openly share successes and failures in a no‑blame environment

What we need to see:

BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
8+ years of proven experience in large scale software development
Experience building and shipping services on Kubernetes
Background with using and contributing to open‑source projects
Collaborated with teams to write software to support cloud services at scale
Programming experience in a relevant language, e.g. Golang, Python
Communicate design and quality strategy in written, visual, and oral formats
Experience with a wide range of modern infrastructure tools and technologies

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Experience with Kubernetes Cluster API, Terraform, Tinkerbell, and other infrastructure tooling
Practical experience with Azure, GCP, or AWS
Capable of refactoring software to run in systems such as Kubernetes
Ability to discuss and work with CSI, CNI, and CRI and/or familiarity with the CNCF and the tooling across the ecosystem
Upstream contribution in open source projects

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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.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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.

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