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[/company/nvidia-usa](/company/nvidia-usa)[NVIDIA USA](/company/nvidia-usa)
# Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking at NVIDIA USA

Compensation · Listed in posting

$184,000 – $287,500/yr

**Location**
: Santa Clara, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 4, 2026

## Description

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking to design, develop, and operate scalable SDN control and data plane software for its AI Clouds. The role covers OVS, OVN, OpenFlow, network orchestration, observability, CI/CD, GitOps, reliability, and production support across Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. Candidates need a BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, at least 8 years of distributed-systems software development experience, and expertise in C, Go, networking, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation. The base salary is 184,000 USD to 287,500 USD, with equity and benefits; applications were accepted until September 8, 2026.

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