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Senior System Software Engineer, Platform and Performance - GeForce Now

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $224,000–$224,000🗓 2026-08-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance GeForce NOW gaming servers using state-of-the-art NVIDIA GPUs to enable low-latency cloud game streaming.

Role type

Senior System Software Engineer (Platform & Performance)

Builds

Cloud gaming infrastructure and streaming servers

Domain

Cloud Gaming / System Software / GPU Virtualization

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Linux Kernel internals, KVM Hypervisor, System Software optimization, Memory management, CPU-to-Memory architecture, Python, C, C++, Rust, Performance critical software, CPU/GPU scheduler

Preferred skills

x86 and ARM architecture, Hypervisors, Game engines, Virtualization platforms, GPUView, Kubernetes, Nvidia Nsight, Kernel shark, Complex debugging

Responsibilities

Optimize game performance on Linux Kernel and KVM Hypervisor, Apply gaming workloads and streaming software for kernel/user space interactions, Bridge software and hardware for cloud streaming, Analyze factors influencing game performance and stability

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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