Senior Database Engineer, Apache Cassandra - Cloud Services (Santa Clara)

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Join NVIDIAs diverse team as a Senior Database Engineer, Apache Cassandra - Cloud Services in Santa Clara, CA, and play a pivotal role in our journey to redefine computing. At NVIDIA, were not just about redefining computer graphics and PC gaming; were at the forefront of AI innovation. As a pivotal team member, you will have the opportunity to build the evolution of our Cassandra ecosystem, encouraging both technological progress and operational efficiency.

What You Will Be Doing :

Play a foundational role in molding the direction of the Apache Cassandra ecosystem at NVIDIA, helping define long-term strategy and platform capabilities.

Construct the future of NVIDIAs use of Cassandra, encompassing self-service provisioning, scaling, multi-tenant controls, and closely coordinated observability.

Manage a crucial stateful system powering essential NVIDIA cloud services, ensuring smooth operations for high-throughput, low-latency production workloads on a large scale.

Partner with developers across organizations to build effective, scalable, and long-lasting schemas.

Lead architectural improvements that improve availability, fault tolerance, consistency, and multi-region durability.

Establish operational standards for schema governance, disaster recovery, backup and restore, and resource management.

Address, debug, and learn from interesting production problems at multiple layers of the infrastructure stack.

What we need to see :

5+ years of experience building distributed systems with a deep understanding of Cassandra internals, including replication, compaction, GC tuning, and JVM performance.

Masters degree or equivalent experience.

Experience managing large fleets of database clusters, including building tools, monitoring, capacity planning, backups, and disaster recovery strategies.

Knowledge of AWS technologies including EC2, ELB, ECS, API Gateway, WAFs, and VPCs with provisioning automation experience.

Proficiency in system-level fundamentals including operating systems, hardware, and networking.

Understanding the tradeoffs of distributed system consistency, failure modes, and partition tolerance.

Growing in a fast-paced environment, with a consistent record of delivering impactful solutions.

Ways to stand out from the crowd :

Experience with HashiCorp Vault and integration into deployment processes and application security.

Experience with data protection technologies including encryption, key management, data loss prevention, and hardware security modules.

Contribution to open-source distributed database projects.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology industry's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and versatile people in the world working with us, and our engineering teams are growing fast in some of the most impactful fields of our generation : Cloud Engineering and Gaming

If you're a creative engineer who enjoys autonomy and shares our passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 21, 2025. NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.