Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Intelligence Backend

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CASeattle, WA
Salary
$152,000–$241,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
5 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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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, Fleet Intelligence Backend

The Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Intelligence Backend joins the DGX Cloud / Fleet Intelligence team to build backend systems powering GPU health monitoring, telemetry ingestion, and operational automation for high-performance GPU infrastructure. You will design and develop Go backend services, REST APIs, and data models for compute zones, node groups, alerts, and inventory. Key responsibilities include developing high-volume ingestion paths, optimizing database schemas, and building scheduled services for liveness tracking and XID analysis. You will utilize Aurora PostgreSQL, Kafka/MSK, S3, SQS, Prometheus/AMP, and OpenTelemetry. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, event pipelines, and cloud infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm. You will collaborate across teams to transform operational workflows into scalable systems while ensuring reliability, security, and observability across production environments.

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What you'll do

  • Design and develop Go backend services and REST APIs for GPU health and fleet intelligence.
  • Build customer-facing and agent-facing APIs for compute zones, nodes, alerts, metrics, and inventory.
  • Develop high-volume ingestion and persistence paths for in-band agents and out-of-band collectors.
  • Manage data storage using Aurora PostgreSQL, Kafka/MSK, S3, and Prometheus for telemetry and reporting.
  • Build and operate scheduled backend services for liveness tracking, alerting, rollups, and XID analysis.
  • Optimize database schemas, partitioned time-series storage, and query performance for reliable service behavior.
  • Improve service reliability, security, and observability across Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of industry software engineering experience.
  • Strong Go backend development experience including building REST APIs and production services.
  • Strong PostgreSQL experience with schema design, query tuning, transactions, and data modeling.
  • Experience with distributed systems, event pipelines, telemetry ingestion, or operational analytics.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
  • Familiarity with authentication and authorization patterns like JWT and service account keys.
  • Experience with Linux-based development and production environments.

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