Principal Software Engineer, Developer Compute Platform
Company: Nvidia
Location: US, CA, Remote (Remote)
Salary: $248k - $391k per year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-10-19
About this role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for NVIDIA's global Developer Compute platform. The platform covers AI agent sandboxes and virtual desktop infrastructure. You will architect and build the services that provision, stream, secure, and operate cloud-hosted compute environments at global scale across AWS and Azure. These environments serve both AI agents and the people who work alongside them. You will partner with engineering, IT, and security leaders across NVIDIA to turn AI and end-user workflows into reliable, high-performance platform capabilities. This role is for a hands-on technical leader who wants to define how agents and people get compute at the frontier of AI!
What you will be doing:
- Leading contributions to the end-to-end architecture of NVIDIA's AI agent compute and virtual desktop platforms, from technical strategy and systems design through implementation, testing, and global deployment.
- Developing distributed compute services that provision and manage secure, isolated agent environments and virtual desktops across multiple clouds, availability zones, and regions.
- Driving the desktop streaming strategy, including protocol architecture, performance tuning, and end-user experience for both GPU-accelerated and general-purpose workloads.
- Collaborating with engineering, IT, and security leaders within NVIDIA to translate AI workflow and end-user compute requirements into a multi-year platform roadmap.
What we need to see:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years of experience in software, platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering, including architecting, developing, and deploying global cloud compute infrastructure.
- Deep, hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure compute, networking, identity, and storage services, such as EC2, VPC, Azure VMs, VNets, and Entra ID.
- Deep expertise in desktop streaming pr...