Build and manage the DGXC Data Platform across cloud service providers and internal systems using Python, SQL, Databricks, and Spark.
Originally posted 9 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
NVIDIA's DGX Cloud organization is seeking a Principal Data & Platform Engineer to guide the building, creation, and management of the DGXC Data Platform. The role implements platform services and shared datasets using Python, SQL, Databricks, and Spark to connect data across cloud service providers, NVIDIA Cloud Partners, and internal systems.
What you'll do
- Define the architecture and multiyear technical roadmap, setting system boundaries, shared interfaces, and engineering standards across ingestion, processing, storage, and data serving.
- Lead delivery across platform engineers, data producers, and consumers, translating ambiguous requirements into actionable designs and milestones.
- Build and operate reusable batch and streaming ingestion capabilities for service provider and internal data, establishing patterns for APIs, change data capture, streams, database connectors, and files.
- Establish shared identifiers, data contracts, consistent modeling, and automated quality and certification capabilities with source owners.
- Guide cataloging, lineage, and governed access capabilities for people and AI agents, implementing shared libraries, reference implementations, and deployment automation.
- Own production readiness and reliability standards, including SLOs, testing, observability, runbooks, rollback, and critical incident investigations across pipelines, SQL engines, Spark, storage, networks, and cloud services.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- More than 16 years of progressively responsible experience developing and operating production software, data platforms, databases, or distributed systems.
- Extensive hands-on experience with distributed data processing, analytical databases, production ETL, streaming systems, or backend platforms handling substantial data volumes.
- Production proficiency in Python or another backend or systems language, with the ability and willingness to work primarily in Python and SQL.
- Deep SQL and data modeling expertise, including query execution, incremental processing, schema evolution, consistency, and data contracts.
- Experience establishing production practices including CI/CD, data validation, observability, incident response, secure deployment, and disaster recovery.
- A record of defining technical strategy and architecture for shared platforms spanning multiple teams, with demonstrated experience leading production investigations and migrations.
Skills: distributed data processing, Databricks, Spark, data contracts, streaming
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 55-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1027
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Median days since first seen
55 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (1027 roles · 93 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 345 | 1027 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1257 | 6596 · 156 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 59 d | 55 d (−4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: distributed data processing, Databricks, Spark, data contracts, streaming
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 339 open roles · median 60 d
- Qualcomm · 56 open roles · median 60 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 38 d
- Graphcore · 48 open roles · median 103 d
- Intel Corporation · 39 open roles · median 25 d
- Arm Holdings · 36 open roles · median 13 d
How we counted: 1027 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 93 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.