Senior Software Engineer, Attestation Services

Nvidia

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Work type: Remote
Location: Santa Clara, CATXWA
Salary: $224,000–$356,500 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 20 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 · Senior Software Engineer, Attestation Services

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The Senior Software Engineer, Attestation Services - DGX Cloud joins the Attestation and Trust Services team to build secure cloud services verifying platform health and resilience. You will design and manage core attestation cloud services, crafting APIs, SDK/CLI integrations, and trust-material distribution systems for certificates, revocation updates, and signed metadata. Daily tasks involve improving operational maturity through SLOs, alerting, and incident response while implementing appraisal and verification workflows to evaluate evidence against security requirements. You will utilize Go, Java, and potentially C++ or Rust within cloud-native environments like Kubernetes. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, REST/gRPC APIs, and security fundamentals including PKI, TLS/mTLS, and hardware roots of trust. You will solve complex problems regarding hardware trust mechanisms and large-scale distributed system reliability.

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Skills

Go Java C++ Rust Kubernetes CI/CD AWS GCP Azure OCI gRPC Microservices Infrastructure as Code PKI TLS/mTLS Secrets Management Distributed Systems Observability

What you'll do

Build and manage core attestation cloud services, APIs, and SDK/CLI integration points.
Convert hardware trust mechanisms and standards into production-ready software solutions.
Improve service reliability and operational maturity using SLOs, SLIs, alerting, and incident response.
Architect trust-material distribution for certificates, revocation updates, signed metadata, and trust bundles.
Implement appraisal and verification workflows to evaluate attestation evidence against security requirements.
Design resilient service behaviors to handle dependency failures, caching challenges, and regional issues.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring on distributed systems, production debugging, and observability.

What we're looking for

BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
12+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems or cloud services.
At least 3 years of experience in security, attestation, or trusted computing.
Experience owning production services, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
Experience developing REST and/or gRPC APIs, microservices, control planes, and customer-facing integrations.
Proficiency in Go or Java; experience with C++ or Rust is a plus (preferred).
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and at least one major cloud provider.
Understanding of security fundamentals including PKI, TLS/mTLS, certificate lifecycle, signing, and secrets management.