Data and Platform Engineer at NVIDIA USA

Compensation · Listed in posting

$200,000 – $322,000/yr

Location: Texas · Rochester, New York
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 29, 2026

Description

NVIDIA’s DGX Cloud organization is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to own and lead a major component of its Navigator data platform, including architecture, data ingestion and orchestration, quality and reconciliation, serving, pipelines, shared platform capabilities, production investigations, and operational standards. The role requires extensive experience with distributed systems, Python, SQL, Databricks, Spark, and related data platforms, along with technical leadership across teams. The base salary is 200,000 USD to 322,000 USD, with equity and benefits, and applications were accepted through October 3, 2026.

Required Skills

Python
SQL
Databricks
Spark
Data modeling
Kafka
Kubernetes

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Required Previous Experiences: At least 12 years of equivalent experience
Building and operating production software, data platforms, databases, or distributed systems
Leading technical delivery across teams with little supervision
Experience with distributed processing, databases, ETL, streaming, or backend cloud platforms
Python and SQL software engineering and production proficiency
SQL and data modeling
Leading complex cross-component and cross-team investigations
Architectural judgment and significant migrations
Establishing production quality and operational practices
Influencing technical decisions and workflow improvements
Preferred Qualifications: Databricks, Apache Spark, PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, or Unity Catalog
Kafka or comparable streaming systems
Relational, distributed, time-series, object-storage, or information retrieval systems
Compute or GPU clusters, Kubernetes, Slurm, cloud infrastructure, and fleet telemetry
Production agentic systems or agent harnesses