Principal Software Engineer - DGX Cloud

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the build and development of next-generation APIs, state management, and workflow orchestration systems that automate fleet lifecycle operations at a massive scale.
• Drive technical alignment across dependent systems and partner teams to ensure cohesive integration, clear interfaces, and reliable end-to-end workflows, with a strong focus on delivery.
• Act as a force-multiplier by coaching, mentoring, and encouraging senior engineers, elevating the technical standards and guidelines across the organization.
• Maintain an incredible focus on the customer experience and product requirements, translating deep technical insight into high-impact business solutions.
• Partner with executive and engineering leadership to codify critical business processes into self-measuring, scalable, and operationally consistent platforms, drastically reducing manual toil.
• Direct the integration strategy for key technologies, including common AI schedulers (e.g., Kubernetes, Slurm) and innovative observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana).

What We Need To See

• 16+ years of progressive industry experience
• Master's or Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience defining and shipping complex distributed systems
• Deep, hands-on expertise in establishing, operating, and scaling services in a fast paced, high-reliability environment
• Thrive in ambiguous, fast paced environments by rapidly testing ideas, iterating toward working solutions, and then hardening the winners into reliable, scalable systems
• Outstanding proficiency in modern systems programming languages such as Go, Java, or Python
• Proven track record of defining, owning, and evolving the architecture of high-scale distributed systems, including advanced patterns for APIs, control planes, and data pipelines
• Deep understanding of global cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and influence outcomes across organizational boundaries
• Outstanding ability to communicate complex technical concepts, drive organizational consensus, and mentor high-performing engineers

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• A history of successfully leading the development and adoption of organization-wide workflow orchestration systems for petabyte-scale infrastructure
• Experience in a Principal/Staff+ capacity, delivering measurable improvements in operational efficiency, reliability, and security across a large engineering org
• Deep familiarity with the operational and deployment aspects of the NVIDIA AI/ML software stack (CUDA, cuDNN, containerization)
• Patent contributions or a strong publication record in areas related to distributed systems, cloud computing, or infrastructure automation