# Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive the architecture and development of our bare-metal and cloud compute infrastructure. 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. We 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. What you'll be doing: Own architecture and lead implementation of large-scale OpenStack infrastructure supporting bare-metal provisioning, virtual machines, and engineering workloads spanning several datacenters around

- **Id**: 4004226
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nvidia-principal-software-engineer-cloud-infrastructure>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T06:06:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5838
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, Servers & Data Center Hardware, Computer Components, AI Chips & Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 6
- **Name**: NVIDIA
- **Domain**: nvidia.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nvidia>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 797
- **Ghost share**: 0.025
- **Stale share**: 0.55
- **Repost share**: 0.055
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 41
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 272000
- **Max**: 431250
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 431250

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DHCP** — Optional: no
- **InfiniBand** — Optional: no
- **KVM** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MariaDB** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **NVLink** — Optional: no
- **OpenStack** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **QEMU** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T06:06:12Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2,856 · green card filings: 799; Filings 12m: 2856

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 42
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:59:26Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 431250
- **Is top pay**: yes

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