Senior Systems Software Engineer, Observability and Telemetry Platform

About the role

The Senior Systems Software Engineer, Observability and Telemetry Platform at NVIDIA is an engineering role focused on composing, building, and maintaining large scale production systems. This role requires a combination of software and systems engineering practices, encompassing knowledge across different systems, networking, coding, database, capacity management, continuous delivery and deployment, and open source cloud enabling technologies like Kubernetes and OpenStack.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and support operational and reliability aspects of large scale Observability & Telemetry collection platform with a focus on performance at scale, real time monitoring, logging and alerting
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design through deployment, operation and refinement
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software tools, platforms and frameworks, capacity management and launch reviews
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• PRACTICE SUSTAINABLE INCIDENT RESPONSE AND BLAMELESS POSTMORTEM
• Be part of an on call rotation to support production systems

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience with Infrastructure automation, distributed systems design
• Experience in design, develop tools for running large scale private or public cloud system in Production
• 5+ years experience delivering foundational infrastructure and observability platforms
• Experience in one or more of the following: Python, Go, Perl or Ruby
• In depth knowledge on Linux, Networking and Containers

Qualifications

• Interest in crafting, analyzing and fixing large-scale distributed systems
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks
• Experience in using or running large private and public cloud systems based on Kubernetes, OpenStack and Docker
• Experience running Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and similar observability focused tools

Skills

• Linux
• Networking
• Containers

Benefits

• Base salary range: $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4, and $224,000 - $356,500 for Level 5
• Eligible for equity and benefits

Pay

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

Schedule

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 18, 2026.