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Senior Engineer System Software, SDN Operations

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $184,000–$184,000🗓 2026-08-14 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, build, and operate highly performant and scalable Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions for NVIDIA's AI Clouds hosting GPU-accelerated workloads.

Role type

Senior System Software Engineer (SDN Operations)

Builds

Multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software, Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration, and observability tools.

Domain

Cloud Networking, AI Infrastructure, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

C, Go, OVN, OVS, OpenFlow, Kubernetes, CNIs, gRPC, REST, Bash, Python, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipeline design, Linux host networking, datacenter routing/switching

Preferred skills

Open-source contributions (OVN, OVS, OVN-Kubernetes), hardware acceleration (GPU, DPU), major cloud provider experience (AWS, Azure, GCP), SRE/DevOps expertise, observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK)

Technologies

OVS, OVN, OpenFlow, gRPC, REST, GitLab, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK

Responsibilities

Design and develop next-generation multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software; Build Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration and services; Drive upstream contributions to OVN-Kubernetes and related open-source projects; Develop software for network observability; Operate and support OVS-OVN based SDN solutions in large-scale NVIDIA AI Cloud environments; Own end-to-end observability for the SDN stack; Design, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines; Implement GitOps approaches; Drive reliability through incident management, resource monitoring, and performance tuning.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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