Senior Software Engineer, Security
NVIDIA
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About the opportunity
NVIDIA is seeking an outstanding Senior Software Engineer to join our security team and focus on securing at-scale infrastructure, high-performance computing environments, and AI cluster systems.
You will play a key role in protecting advanced computing hardware, software, and datacenter platforms by designing, implementing, and evolving security systems, policies, and operational practices.
You will collaborate closely with engineering, infrastructure, research, platform, legal, compliance, and executive teams to identify risks, respond to incidents, and build resilient security programs for next-generation AI infrastructure.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and lead incident response and disaster recovery plans for pre-production clusters.
- Work with infrastructure, networking, storage, OS, firmware, and application teams to harden systems.
- Train peers and users on practical security standard methodologies.
- Build and enforce security controls, systems, and policies for cluster infrastructure of new NVIDIA hardware.
- Identify, assess, and reduce cybersecurity risks and report major risks clearly to leadership.
- Investigate security incidents and drive root-cause analysis.
- Ensure systems meet IT, legal, regulatory, and information security standards.
- Improve security governance, documentation, and audit readiness.
Qualifications
- Experience in programming secure computing environments, with strong proficiency in C/C++.
- Linux kernel hardening (SELinux/AppArmor) and observability (eBPF).
- Experience securing large-scale Linux infrastructure.
- Proven understanding of security risks and how to reduce them.
- Demonstrated understanding of incident response and breach handling.
- Clear written and verbal communication with technical and leadership audiences.
- Experience with compute and networking systems security architectures.
- Experience in securing AI agents using sandboxing technologies and AI-based threat detection (e.g. Mythos).
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience, with 8+ years of relevant experience.
Nice to have
- Developing secure software in Rust, prioritizing memory safety, and experience with modern authentication and identity frameworks such as OAuth 2.1, OIDC, Kerberos, FIDO2/WebAuthn.
- Experience with Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID, including cross-realm trusts and identity federation (SCIMv2).
- Experience managing centralized Linux identity (FreeIPA/RHEL IdM/SSSD), including PKI lifecycle management and Host-Based Access Control.
- Experience hardening HPC schedulers and storage, such as Slurm alongside parallel filesystems like Lustre and NFS.
- Experience securing containerized workloads (Docker, Enroot, Kubernetes) and knowledge of high-speed fabric security like InfiniBand PKeys/MKeys.
Benefits
- Base salary range of 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.
- Base salary range of 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.
- Equity eligibility.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
Job details
- Base salary determined based on location, experience, and peer pay.
- Applications accepted at least until October 22, 2026.
- Posting is for an existing vacancy.
About the company
NVIDIA has transformed computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years through great technology and amazing people.
Today, we tap into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing, where our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars.
Additional information
- NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
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