Senior Software Engineer, Network Visibility Platform

Nvidia

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Work type
Remote
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$168,000–$270,250 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
5 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $219k
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This role pays more than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $177,900–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $219k versus about $207k for comparable roles.

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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 Software Engineer, Network Visibility Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Network Visibility Platform - DGX Cloud joins the Global Network Visibility team to lead a platform converting network topology, configuration, telemetry, and direct measurement into trusted self-service insights. You will architect a unified platform spanning physical topology, logical overlays, and service dependencies while defining telemetry strategies that combine reachability tests with streaming signals. The role involves building authoritative network models, establishing data contracts, and developing products for health, path analysis, and blast-radius exploration to accelerate incident triage. Required skills include proficiency in Python or Go, expertise in networking fundamentals like routing and overlays, and experience with observability stacks including Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. You will manage complex systems involving graph, relational, and time-series databases while navigating trade-offs between performance and reliability to ensure infrastructure is brought online reliably across AI, storage, and edge environments.

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What you'll do

  • Architect a unified platform integrating network topology, configuration, telemetry, and active measurement data.
  • Build an authoritative network model to identify physical and logical configuration errors during cluster bring-up.
  • Develop a comprehensive telemetry and measurement strategy using reachability tests and streaming signals.
  • Create intuitive self-service products for health monitoring, path analysis, and blast-radius exploration.
  • Establish standardized interfaces, data contracts, and quality standards for cross-team contributions.
  • Lead cross-functional roadmaps while making critical trade-offs between speed, cost, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Mentor engineers through complex technical designs and high-level architectural decisions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Proven record of architecting and operating large-scale software or infrastructure platforms.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or a comparable systems language.
  • Deep expertise in network topology, telemetry and active measurement, or observability products.
  • Strong data center and backbone networking fundamentals across physical connectivity, routing, overlays, services, and customer-visible failures.
  • Hands-on experience with an observability stack including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with large-scale graph, relational, time-series, streaming, API, or event-driven systems (preferred).

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