Senior Data and Platform Engineer
$168,000 - $270,250 USD yearly
Originally posted 5 October 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on building shared data infrastructure for DGX Cloud.
About the role
This role involves contributing to building shared data infrastructure that underpins decision-making within DGX Cloud. The DGX Cloud Data Platform transforms infrastructure telemetry and operational data into trustworthy data products for engineering, operations, finance, security, and product teams.
What you'll do
- Define and guide the technical vision for a key DGX Cloud Data Platform domain, covering services, pipelines, data products, and consumer teams.
- Lead the technical delivery of complex, cross-team initiatives, transforming unclear requirements into well-defined architectures and interfaces.
- Architect, implement, and evolve batch and streaming systems that ingest, transform, reconcile, and serve fleet, capacity, utilization, cost, scheduling, and operational telemetry.
- Build shared platform capabilities including libraries, workflow and orchestration abstractions, deployment tooling, and implementation standards.
- Serve as the technical lead for high-impact production investigations spanning pipelines, applications, query engines, distributed processing, storage, networks, and cloud services.
- Establish and drive adoption of engineering standards for automated testing, data quality, reconciliation, lineage, service-level objectives, observability, secure service identities, least-privilege access, release readiness, and auditable deployments.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor’s or equivalent, or a Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- A sustained record of personally crafting, implementing, and operating production software, data platforms, databases, or distributed systems.
- Deep hands-on work with distributed processing, analytical or relational databases, production ETL, change-data capture, streaming or event processing, or backend and cloud systems handling large data volumes.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and production proficiency in a backend or systems language, with experience using data-processing and platform libraries or frameworks.
- Strong SQL and data-modeling skills, including practical depth in query execution, incremental processing, schema evolution, consistency, analytical consumption, idempotency, replay, late-arriving data, partial failure, and cross-system correctness.
- Demonstrated skill in diagnosing failures across various systems by analyzing logs, metrics, traces, query plans, profiles, and controlled experiments.
- Strong architectural judgment in assessing tradeoffs among reliability, performance, cost, security, compatibility, and maintainability.
- Experience establishing production safeguards and engineering practices that multiple teams adopt, including automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, rollback, incident response, and secure deployment.
Skills: data platforms, distributed systems, ETL, cloud systems, SQL
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
905
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$229k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (905 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 258 | 905 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 971 | 5996 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 52 d (−7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: data platforms, distributed systems, ETL, cloud systems, SQL
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 253 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 58 open roles · median 58 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 26 d
- Cerebras · 40 open roles · median 71 d
- Graphcore · 38 open roles · median 98 d
- Renesas Electronics · 36 open roles · median 34 d
How we counted: 905 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.