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Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Services

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CAFull-time$272–431K/yrPosted 3 days agoStill listed 2 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$272–431K/yr
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Engineer for its NGC Cloud Services team to architect and build scalable, distributed cloud services. The role contributes to platform architecture and technical direction, drives secure secrets and artifact management, and supports operational workflows. The engineer will provide technical leadership across projects and coordinate with teams across organizational boundaries and geographies.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Distributed Systems Design, requiredDistributed Systems Development, requiredBackend Services, requiredMicroservices Architecture, requiredJava, requiredGo, requiredC++, requiredSecrets Management, requiredOCI Registry, requiredArtifact Management, requiredInterpersonal Skills, requiredTechnical Leadership, requiredLarge-Scale Architecture, requiredStrategic Management, requiredTactical Management, requiredCloud Multi-Tenancy, nice to haveSPIFFE, nice to haveSPIRE, nice to haveSupply-Chain Security, nice to haveAgent/AI Platforms, nice to haveArtifact Management Platforms, nice to haveTechnical Requirements Analysis, nice to haveAI Infrastructure, nice to haveAccelerated Computing, nice to haveModel Distribution, nice to haveRegulated Enterprise Software Delivery, nice to have

Qualifications

15+ Years Experience, requiredMaster's in Computer Science or Related Technical Field or Equivalent Experience, requiredSuccessful Technical Leadership Track Record, required

Full job description

At NVIDIA, we are seeking a highly skilled Principal Engineer to join our world-class NGC Cloud Services team. In this role, you will help drive the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of the systems that power our global business operations. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape how we automate, streamline, and support critical operational workflows across the organization. You will define how we implement innovative automation and support solutions, enabling teams to operate seamlessly and deliver impact at global scale—all within an encouraging and inclusive environment.

What you'll be doing:

  • Great opportunity to join the core group at NVIDIA working to architect and build scalable and distributed NGC Cloud services.

  • Be a technical leader on various projects across the platform, and be a major contributor of the entire platform’s architecture.

  • Influence architecture and technical direction while empowering teams to own detailed design and implementation decisions.

  • Drive operational excellence for secure, scalable secrets management, artifact management.

What we need to see:

  • 15+ years of experience in distributed systems design and development.

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent experience.

  • You possess advanced programming skills to build scalable backend services and micro services architecture. A specialist programmer in Java, Go and/or C++.

  • Strong technical judgment in secrets management, OCI registry, artifact management at enterprise scale.

  • Highly motivated with strong interpersonal skills, you have the ability to work successfully with multi-functional teams, principles and architects and coordinate effectively across organizational boundaries and geographies.

  • A track record of successful technical leadership and large-scale architecture that impacted critical projects.

  • Switch effectively between long-term strategic management and near-term tactical management.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience with Large-scale Distributed System and cloud multi-tenancy.

  • Experience with Secrets management, SPIFFE, SPIRE, Supply-chain security, agent/AI platforms and artifact management platforms at enterprise scale.

  • A go getter attitude to investigate and understand technical requirements for open-ended problems.

  • Worked in AI infrastructure, accelerated computing, model distribution, or regulated enterprise software delivery.

Your 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.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 13, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

How this job compares

Set against the 39,918 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$272–431K/yr
  • California median$164–243K/yr6,968 salary ranges
  • US median$132–215K/yr32,003 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $352K, is 72% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 8,565 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 39,918 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 32,890 postings).
Education
12,459 of the 39,918 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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