Senior Storage Platform Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$208,000 - $333,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 10 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Storage Platform Engineer, you will design, deploy, and operate the storage platforms powering NVIDIA's EDA FARM, software engineering, AI/ML teams, and engineering workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end deployment of storage systems across NetApp, Pure Storage, Cloudian, and DDN, owning timelines, configuration quality, and delivery against project milestones.
- Define and enforce configuration standards, baselines, and operational runbooks across all platforms.
- Design and implement Infrastructure as Code frameworks (Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent) to automate provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle operations.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for storage configuration deployments.
- Develop and own integrations between storage platforms and the broader infrastructure ecosystem: CMDB for asset discovery, observability stacks for metrics and alerting, configuration management tools for drift detection, and self-service portals.
- Manage day-2 operations including capacity planning, firmware and software lifecycle management, performance tuning, and root cause analysis.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems in large-scale production environments.
- Deep working knowledge of at least three platforms from: NetApp ONTAP (NFS/NAS), Pure Storage FlashArray or FlashBlade, Cloudian HyperStore (S3 object), DDN (Lustre/EXAScaler or high-performance NAS).
- Strong command of storage protocols: NFS, SMB, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, S3, and Lustre.
- Proven experience building infrastructure automation with Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent IaC tools.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar, with a track record of building reusable tooling.
- Experience integrating storage systems with CMDB platforms (ServiceNow, Nautobot, Cerebro or equivalent) and observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, or equivalent).
- Solid experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent) and Git-based workflows.
- MS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Skills: storage platforms, EDA FARM, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD
This role has been open 34 days — well below the 48-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Storage Systems
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Open roles in category
32
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$248k
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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 (32 roles · 12 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 21 | 32 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 993 | 6145 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 48 d | 48 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $248k |
Skills observed across this category: storage platforms, EDA FARM, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 21 open roles · median 48 d
- Broadcom · 1 open role · median 147 d
- Graphcore · 1 open role · median 7 d
- KIOXIA America · 1 open role · median 1 d
- KLA Corporation · 1 open role · median 180 d
- Marvell Technology · 1 open role · median 11 d
How we counted: 32 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Storage Systems) roles from 12 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.