Senior Systems Software Engineer – GeForce NOW Cloud - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$224,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 31 August 2026 by the employer.
Design, build, and deploy highly scalable cloud-based solutions for GeForce NOW.
About the role
This role involves designing, building, and deploying highly scalable cloud-based solutions for GeForce NOW, a cloud gaming service that streams games to various devices using sophisticated GPUs and proprietary software.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and scale distributed cloud-based systems for a high-performance SaaS/PaaS platform.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to drive new features, optimize existing systems, and enhance overall platform reliability.
- Influence the technology stack, architecture, and development methodology.
- Drive automation, monitoring, and performance tuning.
- Build and maintain scalable test harnesses to validate system performance at scale.
- Raise the engineering bar through dedicated mentorship and driving technical excellence.
What you'll need
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent program.
- Minimum 12+ years of hands-on industry experience delivering SaaS/PaaS.
- Proven experience in developing and scaling RESTful, gRPC, MCP APIs and backend services.
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure and distributed system design (high reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, observability).
- Demonstrated skills in Java, Golang, and Python.
- Experience with Spring Boot/Java-based microservices architecture and Golang Kubernetes operators.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code, container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, OpenStack).
- Experience with NoSQL databases (Cassandra) and caching solutions (Redis).
- Deep understanding and experience in writing testable, maintainable, and performant codebases.
Skills: Cloud Computing, distributed cloud-based systems, SaaS/PaaS, Kubernetes, microservices, cloud infrastructure
This role has been open 43 days — 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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| 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 Computing, distributed cloud-based systems, SaaS/PaaS, Kubernetes, microservices, cloud infrastructure
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 287 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 56 d
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- 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.