Senior Data and Platform Engineer

Nvidia

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Remote
Location
CATXNYWA
Salary
$140,000–$224,250 / yr
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Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
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About Nvidia

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 · Senior Data and Platform Engineer

The Senior Data and Platform Engineer joins the DGX Cloud data team to build a reliable foundation for fleet health, capacity, utilization, cost, and operational decision-making. This role involves developing systems that transform distributed infrastructure telemetry into governed data products while managing ingestion, transformation, data quality, and platform architecture. You will construct batch and streaming pipelines, develop shared libraries, and create paved-road patterns to improve team speed and safety. The position requires expertise in Python, SQL, Spark, and distributed data processing. Key responsibilities include designing data contracts, ensuring security through least privilege, and building for idempotency and schema evolution. Candidates should possess experience with relational databases, cloud platforms, and potentially Databricks or Kafka. This role solves the complex problem of managing large GPU fleets across various providers by creating a dependable source of truth.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines for fleet telemetry, capacity, and cost management.
  • Build shared libraries, workflow abstractions, and paved-road patterns to improve team development speed and safety.
  • Develop robust distributed workloads featuring retries, idempotency, backfills, and schema evolution.
  • Implement security best practices including least privilege, secret management, and access controls across the system lifecycle.
  • Establish automated testing, data quality checks, lineage monitoring, and actionable alerting for all data products.
  • Create consumption experiences such as well-modeled tables, APIs, and dashboards to make data usable for internal teams.
  • Lead technical reviews, mentor other engineers, and improve team architecture and operational practices.

What we're looking for

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production software, data platforms, backend infrastructure, databases, or distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL for backend or systems development.
  • Deep hands-on experience in Spark, large-scale database architecture, production ETL, streaming systems, or high-volume cloud platform systems.
  • Strong SQL and data modeling skills including query performance, schema evolution, and incremental processing.
  • Ability to debug complex systems using logs, metrics, traces, and query plans across multiple layers.
  • Knowledge of secure platform development including identity management, least privilege, and secret handling.
  • Experience with Databricks, Kafka, cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, or GPU-accelerated infrastructure (preferred).

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