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Our organization supports hundreds of megawatts of datacenter capacity, making a growing physical fleet available as reliable, secure, and efficient compute services for NVIDIA engineering.\nWe operate an NVIDIA GPU Private cloud that provides infrastructure for continuous integration and validation. Hardware, firmware, drivers, networking, and system software are coordinated and tested on their path to production. The fleet includes x86 and Arm servers, GPUs, DPUs, high-speed networking, storage, and rack-scale systems. Platforms include Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin. In this senior individual contributor role, you will combine hands-on software engineering with architectural leadership. You will evolve our OpenStack platform, automate infrastructure operations, and address complex systems challenges across multiple datacenters.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nOwn architecture and lead implementation of large-scale OpenStack infrastructure supporting bare-metal provisioning, virtual machines, and engineering workloads spanning several datacenters around the globe.\nArchitect and implement Infrastructure as Code frameworks to automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management across OpenStack and bare-metal environments, using version-controlled definitions, automated validation, drift detection, and safe rollback.\nBuild and improve compute control planes, resource scheduling, topology-aware placement, reservations, and capacity management for heterogeneous hardware.\nDevelop and extend OpenStack services and integrations, including Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Cinder, Keystone, and Placement, based on platform requirements.\nImprove platform scalability, availability, and performance through architectural changes, profiling, failure analysis, and detailed elimination of operational bottlenecks.\nBuild safe deployment, upgrade, migration, and rollback mechanisms that minimize disruption to engineering workloads.\nPartner with SRE, datacenter operations, security, product engineering teams to onboard new platforms and resolve failures across system boundaries.\nWhat we need to see:\n15+ years of proven experience in software engineering, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure, demonstrating leadership in diverse technical initiatives across teams. BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. \nDeep experience crafting, developing, deploying, and fixing production OpenStack environments, particularly Nova, Neutron, and Ironic.\nStrong software development skills in Python and experience building maintainable services, APIs, and infrastructure automation.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, including concurrency, state management, asynchronous workflows, failure handling, and recovery.\nDeep Linux systems knowledge and experience with virtualization, KVM/QEMU, containers, and guest operating-system provisioning.\nProven understanding of cloud networking, including L2/L3 networking, VLANs, overlays, DHCP, PXE boot, routing, and tenant isolation.\nExperience with databases and messaging infrastructure supporting cloud control planes, such as MySQL/MariaDB and RabbitMQ.\nExperience operating infrastructure with demanding reliability requirements, including monitoring, incident response, system resources, and production upgrades.\nExcellent debugging skills across hardware, firmware, operating systems, communication systems, data storage, and distributed services.\nAbility to translate ambiguous requirements into technical direction and influence engineering teams across organizational boundaries and time zones.\nWays to stand out from the crowd:\nContributions to OpenStack or related open-source projects, including upstream features, bug fixes, performance improvements, or architectural proposals.\nExperience scaling OpenStack across multiple regions or datacenters, including control-plane resilience, fleet upgrades, and workload migration.\nExpertise in Ironic, Redfish, BMC integration, and provisioning or recovering large bare-metal fleets. Experience with Ceph, distributed storage, and storage integration with OpenStack.\nExperience with GPU and Arm platforms, PCIe pass-through, SR-IOV, NVLink, InfiniBand, or high-speed Ethernet.\nA record of delivering architectural improvements that measurably increase reliability, scalability, utilization, or developer efficiency.\nNVIDIA brings together engineers working on some of the most ambitious problems in computing. Join us to build the infrastructure that enables the next generation of NVIDIA hardware and software. Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. As you plan your future, see what we can offer to you and your family www.nvidiabenefits.com/\nYour base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary range for this position is 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.\nApplications for this job will be accepted at least until November 13, 2026.This posting is for an existing vacancy.\nNVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.\nNVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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