Senior Software Engineer, API Governance

at Nvidia
📍 Santa Clara, United States
USD 148,000-287,500 per year
SENIOR
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Grafana @ 4 Kubernetes @ 4 Prometheus @ 4 Python @ 6 Java @ 6 CI/CD @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 6 Hiring @ 4 Leadership @ 4 AWS @ 4 gRPC @ 4 Protobuf @ 4 SRE @ 4 API @ 4 Technical Leadership @ 4 HTTP @ 4 JSON @ 4 GraphQL @ 4 OpenAPI @ 4

Details

At NVIDIA, the Cloud Engineering Services organization builds and operates secure, scalable foundational cloud services and sets API standards. This team is defining the next era of computing, where GPUs act as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that understand the world. The team draws from a diverse group of engineers and scientists inspired to produce their most innovative work in a supportive environment.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain NVIDIA's API standards and lifecycle guidelines for HTTP and gRPC services, and manage the centralized API registry for internal and external collaborators.
  • Create tooling within CI/CD systems to generate and validate API specifications (Protobuf, OpenAPI v3) and automatically publish specs to the registry.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to encourage the usage of API standards and ensure consistent implementation across the company.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's, Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 5+ years of experience building distributed systems using Golang, Java, or Python.
  • API specification experience: comprehensive understanding of API specifications (OpenAPI, Swagger, Protocol Buffers, JSON Schema, AsyncAPI, GraphQL) and extensive experience defining standards for gRPC and HTTP APIs (schema design, message versioning, naming conventions, asynchronous processing models, and error handling).
  • Governance tooling experience: designing tooling for API governance, including Protobuf linters, breaking-change detection, and automated generation of stubs/mocks within CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred / Ways to Stand Out

  • Cloud infrastructure experience: experience with AWS and modern cloud-native technologies, specifically Kubernetes, Envoy, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Technical leadership: background in technical leadership (architecture or SRE focus) combined with technical writing skills to guide teams and document standards.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base salary ranges (depend on level, location, and experience):
    • Level 3: 148,000 USD - 235,750 USD
    • Level 4: 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD
  • You will also be eligible for equity and benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page).

Other Information

  • Applications for this job will be accepted at least until December 13, 2025.
  • NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. NVIDIA does not discriminate in hiring or promotion practices on the basis of protected characteristics.