Principal Software Engineer – Infrastructure

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Configuration Management team and define the future of enterprise infrastructure automation, configuration management and operational platforms. This is a deeply technical, hands-on leadership role, you will architect and build foundational software systems that manage infrastructure consistently across compute, storage, networking, data centers, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will establish the multi-year technical direction, identify organization-wide challenges, and drive large-scale transformations from initial strategy through architecture, implementation, production adoption, and measurable outcomes. What You’ll Be Doing: Define the multi-year technical vision and architecture for IT infrastructure automation, configuration management, orchestration, and self-service platforms. Set the technical direction for infrastructure automation and configuration management across technologies such as Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, Salt or equivalent platforms. Establish the strategy for applying AI to configuration management, including configuration intelligence, drift and compliance analysis, change-risk identification, root-cause assistance, intelligent recommendations, and guarded automated remediation. Remain deeply hands-on by developing prototypes and production software, reviewing critical code and designs, and resolving the most challenging technical and scalability problems. Build secure and scalable integrations across infrastructure platforms, cloud services, CMDB, secrets management, observability, and enterprise data systems. Set and drive configuration management strategy across networking, storage, and compute domains. Bring deep cross-domain technical expertise to identify gaps and challenge current methods. Establish architectures and engineering standards. Lead organizations in implementation and adoption within large-scale environments. Ensure platforms meet enterprise requirements for availability, scalability, performance, security, disaster recovery, observability, and operational support. Act as a force multiplier by mentoring senior and staff engineers, raising engineering standards, facilitating architectural decisions, and developing technical leaders across teams. Partner with engineering and executive leadership to translate critical business challenges into technical strategy, prioritized roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes. What We Need to See: 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with a sustained record of delivering complex, business-critical platforms and distributed systems. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar domain, or a Master’s degree or equivalent experience. Deep knowledge of enterprise configuration management or infrastructure automation using technologies such as Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, Salt or equivalent platforms. Deep hands-on expertise in Go, Python, Java, or a comparable systems programming language, including APIs, concurrency, distributed systems, testing, debugging, and performance engineering. Strong hands-on experience in Linux, Kubernetes, containers, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.