Principal Software Engineer – Infrastructure

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Configuration Management team. This role will focus on defining the future of enterprise infrastructure automation, configuration management, and operational platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical vision and architecture for IT infrastructure automation, configuration management, orchestration, and self-service platforms.
• Set the technical direction for infrastructure automation and configuration management across technologies such as Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, Salt or equivalent platforms.
• Establish the strategy for applying AI to configuration management, including configuration intelligence, drift and compliance analysis, change-risk identification, root-cause assistance, intelligent recommendations, and guarded automated remediation.
• Develop prototypes and production software, review critical code and designs, and resolve the most challenging technical and scalability problems.
• Build secure and scalable integrations across infrastructure platforms, cloud services, CMDB, secrets management, observability, and enterprise data systems.
• Ensure platforms meet enterprise requirements for availability, scalability, performance, security, disaster recovery, observability, and operational support.
• Lead organizations in implementation and adoption within large-scale environments.
• Bring deep cross-domain technical expertise to identify gaps and challenge current methods. Establish architectures and engineering standards. Mentor senior and staff engineers, raise engineering standards, facilitate architectural decisions, and develop technical leaders across teams.
• Partner with engineering and executive leadership to translate critical business challenges into technical strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and measure business outcomes.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with a sustained record of delivering complex, business-critical platforms and distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar domain, or a Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise configuration management or infrastructure automation using technologies such as Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, Salt or equivalent platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience in Linux, Kubernetes, containers, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Proven experience defining, owning, and evolving the architecture of large-scale infrastructure platforms operating across multiple teams, data centers, or cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to identify organization-wide business and technical challenges, establish a clear strategy, and drive implementation across teams.
• Outstanding communication and technical leadership skills, with a proven ability to build consensus, influence senior leaders, mentor experienced engineers, and lead through ambiguity.

Qualifications

• Experience in architecting, deploying and managing Ansible Automation Platform at enterprise scale.
• Experience developing platforms that manage large global infrastructure fleets across data centers, public clouds, compute, storage, and networking environments.
• A history of leading the development and enterprise-wide adoption of an AI-enabled configuration management, infrastructure automation, or autonomous operations platform.
• Experience using AI to solve infrastructure challenges such as configuration drift, compliance, change-risk analysis, incident diagnosis, capacity management, predictive operations, or automated remediation.

Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Go, Python, Java, or a comparable systems programming language, including APIs, concurrency, distributed systems, testing, debugging, and performance engineering.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers.
• Competitive salaries.
• Equity.