Senior Data and Platform Engineer
$200,000 - $322,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 5 October 2026 by the employer.
This role contributes to building shared data infrastructure that underpins decision-making within DGX Cloud.
About the role
This role involves contributing to building the 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.
- 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, and deployment tooling.
- 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, and lineage.
What you'll need
- 12+ years of industry experience with a Bachelor's or Master's degree 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, and consistency.
- Demonstrated skill in diagnosing failures across various systems by analyzing logs, metrics, traces, and query plans.
- 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, and alerting.
Skills: batch and streaming systems, data platforms, distributed systems, SQL, cloud services
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: batch and streaming systems, data platforms, distributed systems, SQL, cloud services
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.