Senior Software Engineer, Object Storage

Nvidia

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Work type: Remote
Location: Santa Clara, CANCTXIL
Salary: $184,000–$287,500 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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This role $236k

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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, Object Storage

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As a Senior Software Engineer, Object Storage - DGX Cloud, you will join the team responsible for designing, implementing, and extending an internal object storage system critical to generative AI research and world models. You will develop storage capabilities, improve system performance at all levels, and automate infrastructure including provisioning, management, and monitoring. Your work involves ensuring availability and reliability across deployments of over ten thousand nodes and exabytes of data while contributing to upstream open source storage codebases. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, concurrency models, and primitives like threads and event loops. You will utilize Python, Go, or C/C++ to build large-scale services. The position focuses on solving complex problems regarding data availability, durability, and fault tolerance within a high-performance computing environment to support advanced AI and machine learning research initiatives.

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Skills

Object Storage Distributed Systems Python Go C C++ Cloud Services Concurrency Models Open Source Monitoring High-Performance Computing Fault Tolerance

What you'll do

Design, implement, and test internal object storage systems for AI/ML research teams.
Develop storage capabilities to support large-scale data requirements for generative AI models.
Improve the availability and reliability of deployments across 10,000+ nodes and exabytes of data.
Analyze and optimize system performance at all architectural levels.
Automate end-to-end storage infrastructure including provisioning, management, and monitoring.
Contribute to upstream open source storage codebases.

What we're looking for

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of relevant experience.
Proven track record of developing object storage services with an understanding of data availability, durability, and fault tolerance.
Experience delivering products from inception to support.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Prior experience developing distributed systems with Python, Go, C/C++, or similar languages.
Experience delivering major components of a distributed storage system at exabyte scale (preferred).
Strong experience with concurrency models and primitives such as threads, event loops, and distributed locking (preferred).