Senior Engineer System Software, SDN Operations
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