Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$184,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 13 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves building and operating cloud infrastructure that supports software engineers across graphics, deep learning, autonomous vehicles, and Omniverse. The platform processes millions of automated jobs daily and manages petabytes of storage.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate scalable cloud services for job execution, resource management, and storage.
- Solve infrastructure challenges across Kubernetes, job scheduling, multi-region services, and automated recovery.
- Develop agentic workflows that streamline infrastructure operations.
- Build observability, monitoring, and remediation capabilities to improve platform reliability.
- Partner with engineering teams to understand customer needs and deliver solutions.
- Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and production readiness for platform growth.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of infrastructure development experience, including delivering scalable cloud solutions from concept to production.
- Strong object-oriented programming skills in Java or Go.
- Background in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics, with the ability to apply these techniques to infrastructure.
- Ability to diagnose complex distributed systems issues and drive root-cause resolution.
- Effective collaboration across engineering teams and time zones, with ownership of customer needs and production outcomes.
Skills: Cloud Infrastructure, scalable cloud services, Kubernetes, job scheduling, distributed systems
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
956
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (956 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 289 | 956 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1008 | 6164 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 43 d | 51 d (−8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Cloud Infrastructure, scalable cloud services, Kubernetes, job scheduling, distributed systems
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 287 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 56 d
- AMD · 53 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 89 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 79 d
- Intel Corporation · 36 open roles · median 13 d
How we counted: 956 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.