[Remote] Senior Systems Software Engineer - Accelerated Spark Applications

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Systems Software Engineer for its Apache Spark Acceleration group. The role builds and operates a hosted Spark service on Kubernetes, extends GPU-accelerated Spark runtime and workload-routing components, and supports production workloads through monitoring, incident response, and technical guidance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate hosted Spark service control plane on Kubernetes: the Java REST API, the Spark Connect runner, Kyuubi, and deployment using Helm charts and Flux
• Own code review for one or more services end to end and keep them releasable on the release train
• Extend the cuDF Spark runtime and the CPU/GPU workload router in Scala and Java, including interoperability with Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg and Unity Catalog
• Investigate production failures on clusters running more than a thousand concurrent jobs together with the customer team and upstream library teams, and drive fixes to closure
• Instrument metrics, dashboards and alerts; take part in the on-call rotation and keep the runbooks current
• Provide recommendations and feedback to teams regarding decisions surrounding topics such as infrastructure, continuous integration and testing strategy

Skills

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field (or equivalent experience)
• 9+ years of experience in software development
• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals and proficiency in Java or Scala, plus C++ or Python
• Hands-on experience operating services on Kubernetes, on-premise or cloud
• Experience owning or reviewing a long-lived server: REST front ends, proxies or request routers, JDBC or Thrift services
• Experience supporting enterprise or internal production customers, including on-call
• Experience using AI tools in software development
• Apache Spark internals, Spark Connect, or Kyuubi
• Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg or Unity Catalog integration work
• GPU data processing with cuDF, or CUDA experience
• Significant contributions to data platform projects committed to collaboration and shared development (Apache Spark, Velox, Presto, Apache Arrow, Apache DataFusion)

Benefits

• Eligible for equity

Company Overview

NVIDIA designs graphics processing units and accelerated computing hardware for AI and high-performance computing applications. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.nvidia.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

NVIDIA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2427 in 2026, 1865 in 2025, 1352 in 2024, 975 in 2023, 835 in 2022, 601 in 2021, 529 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.