Director, Software Engineering, Cloud Compute and Infrastructure

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$320,000–$488,750 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Director, Software Engineering, Cloud Compute and Infrastructure

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The Director, Software Engineering – Cloud Compute and Infrastructure leads software teams managing bare-metal datacenters and cloud compute infrastructure. This role involves building software to provide reliable, secure, and efficient compute services for internal engineering teams, specifically supporting continuous integration infrastructure for hardware, firmware, drivers, and networking. Key responsibilities include owning architecture for compute control planes, resource provisioning, and topology-aware placement across x86 and Arm servers, GPUs, DPUs, and liquid-cooled systems. You will automate the bare-metal lifecycle, including hardware discovery, imaging, and firmware configuration, while building CI services to provision repeatable test environments. Required expertise includes distributed systems, Linux, virtualization, containers, and networking. You must manage the technical direction for fleet management, failure isolation, and observability across heterogeneous systems to shorten the path from hardware changes to validation.

Skills

Distributed Systems Cloud Infrastructure Linux Virtualization Containers OpenStack Networking Storage InfiniBand NVLink GPU Clusters High-Performance Computing Hardware-in-the-loop Observability Ironic Nova Neutron Cinder

What you'll do

  • Lead software engineering teams responsible for cloud compute, bare-metal fleet management, and CI infrastructure.
  • Set the technical direction for compute control planes, resource provisioning, and capacity management.
  • Automate the bare-metal lifecycle including hardware discovery, imaging, firmware configuration, and recovery.
  • Build CI services to provision repeatable test environments and collect hardware diagnostics.
  • Define service-level objectives, improve observability, and turn recurring infrastructure failures into engineering fixes.
  • Measure and improve hardware onboarding time, provisioning speed, and productive fleet utilization.
  • Set engineering standards for design reviews, automated testing, secure development, and release quality.
  • Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders to deliver consistent results.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in software engineering, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
  • 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams and managing engineering managers.
  • Direct engineering ownership of underlying services for a public or private compute cloud (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
  • Technical depth in distributed systems, Linux, virtualization, containers, networking, and storage services.
  • Experience building software and automation for bare-metal infrastructure, including provisioning, lifecycle management, and recovery.
  • Experience running production infrastructure with demanding availability requirements, including failure isolation and incident response.
  • Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience building or operating OpenStack infrastructure, particularly Nova, Neutron, Cinder, or Ironic (preferred).

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