Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking

About this role

We are looking for a Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking to design, build, and operate highly performant and scalable SDN solutions for NVIDIA's AI Clouds hosting GPU-accelerated workloads — including hyperscale multi-node training, inference, cloud gaming, and cloud functions. This role spans the full lifecycle of our SDN stack — from designing and developing new control and data plane software to ensuring operational excellence in production through reliability engineering, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.

What you'll be doing:

• Design and develop next-generation multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software (OVS, OVN, OpenFlow)
• Build Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration and services using gRPC and REST to support tenant workload security and performance SLAs for BMaaS, VMaaS, and Kubernetes
• Drive upstream contributions to OVN-Kubernetes and related open-source projects; Develop software for network observability — monitoring, telemetry, intelligent metering, and performance analysis
• Operate and support OVS-OVN based SDN solutions in large-scale NVIDIA AI Cloud environments
• Own end-to-end observability for the SDN stack — build and maintain monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and dashboarding to ensure real-time insight into network health, performance, and tenant SLAs
• Design, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) across Linux host networking, OVS, OVN, and Kubernetes CNIs
• Implement GitOps approaches or related experience for secure, seamless integration with cloud infrastructure; Drive reliability through incident management, resource monitoring, and performance tuning
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and network engineering teams on production readiness and operational tooling

What we need to see:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical field, or a comparable blend of education and relevant experience
• 5+ years of proven experience in software dev...