Senior Platform Engineer, Network Infrastructure - DGX Cloud at NVIDIA Corporation
Santa Clara, CA
$176,000–$333,500from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on building, operating, and automating a Kubernetes platform that underpins network automation, telemetry, and operations across data centers, colocation facilities, and cloud environments. Day-to-day work spans cluster lifecycle management, GitOps-based delivery, observability standards, and production support for hosted network services, including participation in an on-call rotation. Best suited to engineers with deep Kubernetes-at-scale experience and a background in distributed systems or network infrastructure.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 23,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 14,300–35,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 (7)
The role sits at the boundary between software development and platform/infrastructure operations. It is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) because the JD explicitly emphasizes building production-quality software, automation, controllers, and GitOps delivery pipelines — not merely operating infrastructure someone else built. Network/Systems Administration (15-1244) is noted as a runner-up given the strong operational and on-call responsibilities.
The JD advertises two salary bands: $176,000–$276,000 (Level 4) and $208,000–$333,500 (Level 5). The pay band fields reflect the full combined range ($176,000–$333,500); the level split cannot be represented in a single range.
Degree requirement is set to None: the JD explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience' in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
Go and Python appear together as interchangeable options ('at least one general-purpose programming language, such as Go or Python'); Go is listed as the primary with Python as an alternative. Both are in the required section.
Skills under 'Ways to Stand Out From the Crowd' (Cluster API, Metal3, Kubernetes controllers/operators, IP routing, multi-region fleet management) are treated as preferred — that heading is clearly a secondary, aspirational block separate from the hard requirements.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): multi-region Kubernetes fleet management.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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