Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic IT Operations

Nvidia

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Work type: On-site
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Salary: $200,000–$322,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
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 Staff Software Engineer, Agentic IT Operations

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The Senior Staff Software Engineer - Agentic IT Operations joins the team to define the technical strategy for autonomous AI-driven enterprise operations. In this senior individual contributor role, you will architect and build production agentic systems using LLM-based agents, tool calling, RAG, and orchestration frameworks to automate complex workflows like endpoint services and IT support. You will own the reference architecture for agent runtimes, memory management, and safety guardrails while managing integrations across ServiceNow, ERP, and procurement systems. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Python or Go, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure. You will solve the business problem of transforming manual, reactive IT workflows into scalable, autonomous platforms by establishing engineering standards for prompt versioning, evaluation harnesses, and data-governance patterns.

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Skills

LLM RAG Agentic AI Python Go Kubernetes AWS GCP Azure CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Datadog Kafka Airflow Temporal ServiceNow APIs Data Pipelines Distributed Systems

What you'll do

Define the technical strategy and reference architecture for agentic AI across enterprise IT systems.
Architect and build production agentic systems using LLM-based agents, RAG, and orchestration frameworks.
Design autonomous agents to execute multi-step enterprise workflows with human-in-the-loop controls and safety guardrails.
Own the architecture of the integration and automation platform spanning ServiceNow, ERP, and procurement systems.
Establish engineering standards for building, testing, evaluating, and operating agentic systems.
Drive technical alignment and resolve contested architectural decisions across organizational boundaries without formal authority.
Mentor and grow senior and staff engineers through design partnership, code review, and technical coaching.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field, or equivalent experience.
12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
Deep expertise in at least one of: Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, Platform, or Production Engineering.
Proven experience taking agentic AI or LLM-based systems to production, including RAG, tool calling, and human-in-the-loop safeguards.
Production-grade proficiency with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Fluent in Python, Go, or equivalent languages to architect, write, and review production-quality code.
Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or PagerDuty.
Experience defining an agentic AI or automation platform strategy for a large enterprise (preferred).

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