$272,000 - $431,250 USD yearly
Scale OpenStack control planes across Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin platforms.
Originally posted 9 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive the architecture and development of bare-metal and cloud compute infrastructure supporting engineering workloads across multiple datacenters. The role focuses on evolving the OpenStack platform across heterogeneous fleets including Grace Blackwell, Vera Rubin, x86 and Arm servers, GPUs, and DPUs.
What you'll do
- Own the architecture and implementation of large-scale OpenStack infrastructure supporting bare-metal provisioning, virtual machines, and engineering workloads across datacenters globally.
- Architect and implement Infrastructure as Code frameworks to automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management with drift detection and rollback capabilities.
- Build and improve compute control planes, resource scheduling, topology-aware placement, reservations, and capacity management for heterogeneous hardware.
- Develop and extend OpenStack services and integrations, including Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Cinder, Keystone, and Placement.
- Improve platform scalability, availability, and performance through architectural changes, profiling, failure analysis, and elimination of operational bottlenecks.
- Build deployment, upgrade, migration, and rollback mechanisms that minimize disruption to engineering workloads while partnering with SRE, datacenter operations, and security teams.
What you'll need
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure, with a BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Deep experience designing, developing, deploying, and debugging production OpenStack environments, particularly Nova, Neutron, and Ironic.
- Strong software development skills in Python, with experience building maintainable services, APIs, and infrastructure automation.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, including concurrency, state management, asynchronous workflows, failure handling, and recovery.
- Deep Linux systems knowledge with experience in virtualization, KVM/QEMU, containers, and guest operating-system provisioning.
- Proven understanding of cloud networking (L2/L3 networking, VLANs, overlays, DHCP, PXE boot, routing, tenant isolation) and control plane data services including MySQL/MariaDB and RabbitMQ.
Skills: OpenStack, Bare-metal, Python, Linux, KVM/QEMU, Ironic
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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: OpenStack, Bare-metal, Python, Linux, KVM/QEMU, Ironic
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.