Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Tooling Lead - Automation
NVIDIA Corporation · Santa Clara, CA
$184,000–$356,500from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical lead role focused on building internal platforms, automation frameworks, and developer productivity tooling for a large engineering organization. Day-to-day work spans designing scalable services and APIs, integrating with CI/CD and test infrastructure, and developing LLM-powered workflows for tasks like log analysis, triage, and knowledge retrieval. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable with both deep technical ownership and mentoring others.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,950–7,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting covers two internal levels (Level 4 and Level 5) with distinct salary bands: $184,000–$287,500 for L4 and $224,000–$356,500 for L5. The comp fields reflect the full combined range across both levels.
The degree requirement lists BS or MS but explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience,' so no formal degree is treated as a hard gate.
RAG is listed in the required section as part of 'LLM-based workflows, agents, RAG systems' — it is a named, required capability even though it also appears in the preferred section with more detail (embeddings, vector search, agent orchestration), which are marked preferred.
C and C++ appear alongside Python and Bash in the required programming languages block; all four are marked required.
Kubernetes, containers, embeddings, vector search, and agent orchestration appear only under 'Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd' (the preferred/nice-to-have section) and are marked accordingly.
The alt SOC (15-1244) was considered because the role touches infrastructure operations, but the primary day-to-day work is clearly building and shipping software — automation frameworks, APIs, LLM workflows, and internal platforms — firmly placing it at 15-1252.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): agent orchestration.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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