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Director, Software Engineering – Cloud Compute and Infrastructure

NVIDIA· Mgmt, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$320k - $488.8kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Engineering director leading software teams for bare-metal datacenters and cloud compute infrastructure, including CI infrastructure, across multiple hardware generations and platforms. Responsible for architecture, deployment, operations, and driving reliability, scalability, and efficiency of compute services.

Responsibilities

  • Lead software engineering teams responsible for cloud compute, bare-metal fleet management, and CI infrastructure, owning architecture, implementation, deployment, and operations.
  • Set the technical direction for compute control planes, resource provisioning, topology-aware placement, reservations, and capacity management across physical servers, virtual machines, and containers.
  • Automate the bare-metal lifecycle: hardware discovery and inventory, server bring-up, imaging, firmware and driver configuration, out-of-band management, health checks, reprovisioning, and recovery.
  • Build CI services that allocate the right hardware, provision repeatable test environments, record hardware and software configurations, collect diagnostics, and restore systems to a known state.
  • Keep engineering services dependable while supporting evolving preproduction hardware and software. Define service-level objectives, isolate failures, improve observability, and turn incidents and recurring test-infrastructure failures into engineering fixes.
  • Measure and improve hardware onboarding time, provisioning speed, CI queue time, productive fleet utilization, recovery time, and cost efficiency as capacity expands.
  • Set engineering standards for design and code reviews, automated testing, secure development, release quality, and safe changes to production systems.
  • Hire, coach, and retain engineers and engineering managers. Establish clear ownership, develop technical leaders, and build teams that deliver consistently over multiple release cycles.
  • Partner with hardware, firmware, drivers, networking, storage, security, and validation teams to onboard platforms and diagnose failures across system boundaries.
  • Work with datacenter operations and facilities teams to bring additional capacity online. Connect rack power, cooling, physical topology, and hardware-health telemetry to provisioning, placement, serviceability, and operational readiness.

Qualifications

  • 15+ overall years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure, including 7+ years leading engineering teams and experience managing engineering managers.
  • Direct engineering ownership of the underlying services of a public or private compute cloud, such as AWS EC2, Google Compute Engine, Azure Compute, OCI Compute, or a comparable infrastructure-as-a-service platform.
  • Strong technical depth in distributed systems, Linux, virtualization, containers, and the networking and storage services that support large compute fleets.
  • Experience building software and automation for bare-metal infrastructure, including server provisioning, hardware inventory, firmware or operating-system lifecycle management, and recovery across heterogeneous systems.
  • Experience running production infrastructure with demanding availability requirements, including failure isolation, incident response, observability, and reliable deployment and recovery mechanisms.
  • The ability to guide architecture, evaluate implementation choices, and debug complex interactions among hardware, firmware, drivers, operating systems, and distributed services with senior engineers.
  • A record of sustained ownership as platforms evolve, with measurable improvements in reliability, scalability, or engineering delivery. Strong communication, collaboration, and people-development skills.
  • A degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsLinuxVirtualizationContainersCI infrastructure

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see company page)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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