Senior Systems Software Engineer - Infrastructure - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$168,000 - $322,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 10 September 2026 by the employer.
Support NVIDIA GPU design teams with storage services.
About the role
This role involves designing and building the architecture and software for managing storage services to support NVIDIA GPU design, VLSI, Corporate, and AI/ML teams. You will handle services critical for all NVIDIA users that require 24/7/365 availability and support.
What you'll do
- Define, build, and manage an Enterprise software engineering platform for storage infrastructure and services.
- Design and expand REST APIs for on-demand storage management for engineers.
- Build and integrate provisioning, metrics, monitoring, and software for storage services management workflows.
- Develop tooling to automate deployment and management of large-scale design-storage environments.
- Automate operational monitoring and alerting, and enable self-service consumption of resources.
- Document procedures, perform technology evaluations, and coordinate system orders, installations, and deployment.
What you'll need
- BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience, MS with 5+ years, or Ph.D. with 3 years.
- Extensive experience building and owning large-scale, multi-threaded, distributed backend systems.
- Experience designing and building REST APIs in Python or Go.
- Background with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
- Background with telemetry stacks, including Grafana, Prometheus monitoring, AlertManager, and Kibana.
Skills: storage services, backend systems, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure
This role has been open 35 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
974
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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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 (974 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 281 | 974 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 991 | 6157 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 51 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: storage services, backend systems, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 281 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 55 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 91 d
- Intel Corporation · 41 open roles · median 10 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 81 d
How we counted: 974 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 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.