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Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA Kubernetes
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, CA · Posted 7 days ago
Own the management plane that builds, upgrades, and operates Kubernetes clusters for AI and HPC workloads on customer-managed infrastructure, setting technical direction and mentoring engineers.
NVIDIA is recognized as one of the technology world's most desirable employers, driving groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and Visualization. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Management Plane area, you will own building and delivering software that creates, upgrades, scales, and operates Kubernetes clusters on customer-managed infrastructure. This infrastructure supports demanding AI and high-performance computing workloads. You will set technical direction, lead cross-team development, and mentor other engineers while shipping high-quality, production-ready software.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Develop and build management plane capabilities such as cluster lifecycle operations (compose, upgrade, scale, repair, delete), node management, and fleet-wide health and status reporting, from development through production.
- Architect and implement Kubernetes controllers, operators, and custom resource definitions (CRDs) in Go, with reliable, idempotent reconciliation.
- Drive automated cluster provisioning across bare metal, virtualized, and cloud environments, using Cluster API-style concepts and infrastructure providers.
- Lead technical build: write build docs, run build reviews, and align partner teams across the software and hardware stack.
- Diagnose and improve the performance, reliability, and security of complex, asynchronous distributed systems, including debugging issues in production.
- Own test strategy (unit, integration, end-to-end) and automate build, test, and release pipelines.
- Mentor engineers, improve code reviews, and keep documentation and runbooks clear and current.
- Prioritize various tasks while maintaining high code quality.
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