Senior System Software Engineer - Networking

About this role

NVIDIA Networking is seeking an exceptional candidate to work with world-class technologies in the domains of High-Speed Communication and Virtualization for our most advanced markets and customers. Our products encompass Ethernet and InfiniBand protocols, delivering a wide range of cutting-edge networking, virtualization, and security services for cloud, complex compute, and AI workloads. As a Networking Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality customer solutions for advanced networking use cases.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead and own test strategies for advanced networking use cases end-to-end, collaborating with software developers, network engineers, architects, customer solutions engineers, and product managers to translate customer requirements into comprehensive verification plans.
• Design and execute functional, integration, regression, and performance test campaigns for software applications, firmware, tools, and networking protocols — driving coverage decisions and sign-off criteria.
• Architect and maintain test automation frameworks and infrastructure using Python and Bash, raising the quality bar for the team’s CI/CD pipeline and test reliability.
• Triage, root-cause, and drive resolution of complex software defects across multiple subsystems, working across team boundaries when needed.
• Lead release quality activities — own release indicators, track risk, and communicate readiness to stakeholders across engineering and product management.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, providing constructive feedback and establishing best practices to improve code quality and maintainability.
• Evaluate and improve test processes, methodologies, and tooling — proposing and driving adoption of improvements that increase team efficiency.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of familiarity with Linux ...