Senior Systems Software Engineer, Observability and Telemetry Platform

Nvidia

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Work type
Remote
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$152,000–$241,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
49 days ago
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This role pays more than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$227,787 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $197k versus about $189k 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

Nvidia currently has 1675 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Systems Software Engineer, Observability and Telemetry Platform

The Senior Systems Software Engineer, Observability and Telemetry Platform is responsible for composing, building, and maintaining large-scale production systems that require high efficiency and availability. This role involves designing, implementing, and supporting the operational and reliability aspects of an observability and telemetry collection platform, focusing on real-time monitoring, logging, and alerting. You will manage the entire service lifecycle from inception through deployment, ensuring maximum reliability and uptime for GPU cloud services while optimizing for capacity, latency, and performance. Key responsibilities include automating manual work, performing blameless postmortems, and participating in on-call rotations. Required technical skills include experience with Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby, along with in-depth knowledge of Linux, networking, containers, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Docker, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement operational and reliability aspects of large-scale observability and telemetry collection platforms.
  • Manage the full service lifecycle from initial design and deployment through ongoing operation and refinement.
  • Provide system design consulting and develop software tools, platforms, and frameworks for pre-launch services.
  • Monitor and measure system health, including availability, latency, and performance metrics for live services.
  • Scale systems sustainably through automation and continuous performance tuning to improve reliability and velocity.
  • Conduct blameless postmortems and practice sustainable incident response to identify and resolve potential outages.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to provide support for production systems.

What we're looking for

  • BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience with infrastructure automation and distributed systems design.
  • 5+ years of experience delivering foundational infrastructure and observability platforms.
  • Experience designing and developing tools for running large-scale private or public cloud systems in production.
  • Experience in one or more of the following: Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby.
  • In-depth knowledge of Linux, Networking, and Containers.
  • Experience using or running large private and public cloud systems based on Kubernetes, OpenStack, and Docker (preferred).
  • Experience running Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and similar observability focused tools (preferred).

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