Senior Database Engineer, Apache Cassandra - Cloud Services

at Nvidia
📍 Santa Clara, United States
USD 168,000-322,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Security @ 4 Vault @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 7 JVM @ 7 AWS @ 4 Networking @ 7 API @ 4 Cassandra @ 4

Details

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Database Engineer focused on Apache Cassandra for Cloud Services in Santa Clara, CA. You will help define long-term strategy and platform capabilities for NVIDIA's Cassandra ecosystem, build self-service provisioning and scaling, and operate large-scale, stateful systems that power NVIDIA cloud services.

Responsibilities

  • Play a foundational role in shaping the Apache Cassandra ecosystem at NVIDIA and defining platform strategy and capabilities.
  • Build self-service provisioning, scaling, multi-tenant controls, and coordinated observability for Cassandra clusters.
  • Manage and operate a large-scale, stateful system for high-throughput, low-latency production workloads.
  • Partner with developers across organizations to design effective, scalable, and long-lasting schemas.
  • Lead architectural improvements to enhance availability, fault tolerance, consistency, and multi-region durability.
  • Establish operational standards for schema governance, disaster recovery, backup & restore, and resource management.
  • Diagnose, debug, and learn from production issues across multiple layers of the infrastructure stack.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building distributed systems with deep understanding of Cassandra internals, including replication, compaction, GC tuning, and JVM performance.
  • Master's degree or equivalent experience.
  • Experience managing large fleets of database clusters: building tooling, monitoring, capacity planning, backups, and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Knowledge of AWS technologies and services including EC2, ELB, ECS, API Gateway, WAFs, and VPCs, with provisioning automation experience.
  • Strong system-level fundamentals: operating systems, hardware, and networking.
  • Solid understanding of distributed system tradeoffs: consistency, failure modes, and partition tolerance.
  • Proven ability to grow and deliver impactful solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Ways to stand out

  • Experience with HashiCorp Vault and integrating it into deployment processes and application security.
  • Experience with data protection technologies: encryption, key management, data loss prevention, and hardware security modules.
  • Contributions to open-source distributed database projects.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD for Level 5.
  • Eligible for equity and additional benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page).

Additional information

  • Location: Santa Clara, CA, United States.
  • Employment type: Full time.
  • Applications accepted at least until September 21, 2025.
  • NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse work environment.