Senior Backend Platform Engineer - Profiling Services

About the role

The Senior Backend Platform Engineer will design and build production backend services for interactive performance analysis and collaborative workflows. They will also improve the responsiveness, scalability, and efficiency of data-intensive product experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production backend services for interactive performance analysis and collaborative workflows.
• Improve the responsiveness, scalability, and efficiency of data-intensive product experiences.
• Create reliable capabilities for onboarding, validating, organizing, and serving large performance datasets.
• Engineer resilient behavior for concurrency, partial failures, retries, and recovery.
• Establish effective testing, observability, and operational practices for the capabilities you own.
• Partner with frontend, security, product, and source-system teams to deliver complete customer workflows.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience building production backend services, distributed systems, analytical systems, or data platforms using Python or a comparable language.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including automated tests, failure handling, production diagnostics, and compatible evolution of APIs or stored data.
• Experience with asynchronous backends and hands-on depth in query execution or real-time stateful systems.
• Experience with data-focused work, strong SQL and experience with ingestion, schema evolution, analytical storage, or query-optimized data modeling.
• Sound judgment about failure and concurrency, demonstrated through problems such as cancellation, replay, safe retries, or recovery.
• Ability to measure system behavior and turn logs, metrics, traces, load tests, or data-quality signals into practical improvements.
• Record of working across client, service, data, and security concerns to ship a complete production workflow.

Qualifications

• Practical coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust, encompassing the capability to write, review, and direct production-quality infrastructure software.
• Experience with Rust is highly valued.
• Experience making high-cardinality, time-indexed, trace, telemetry, or profiling workloads responsive at scale.
• Experience improving analytical reads or ingestion with columnar formats, embedded query engines, analytical stores, progressive detail, or incremental processing.
• Experience in generated clients, secure sharing, authorization-aware caching, provenance, lifecycle automation, or cost attribution.

Benefits

NVIDIA offers a competitive compensation package including a base salary range of $140,000 - $224,250, equity, and benefits.

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

Schedule

The posting is for an existing vacancy.