Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Engineering

• Design, build and operate production pipelines using Python, SQL and Databricks/Spark for cloud billing, SaaS usage and shared-service telemetry.
• Build reusable ingestion frameworks and data contracts for APIs and file-based sources, handling schema changes, late-arriving data and safe backfills.
• Develop cost, usage and ownership models for BU, platform and service allocation, with reconciliation and traceability to source records.
• Implement data freshness, completeness and accuracy checks, lineage and actionable monitoring. Diagnose incidents and automate retries, replay and recovery.
• Optimize distributed processing, storage and serving-layer queries for performance, scalability and infrastructure cost.
• Own testing, CI/CD, safe deployments and operational runbooks for data services, and participate in production support.
• Partner with Finance, infrastructure and service owners to turn reporting and governance requirements into clear data models and interfaces.
• Lead technical design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and apply access controls and auditability throughout the data lifecycle.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software or data engineering experience building and operating production data systems.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience writing maintainable, tested code and debugging complex data transformations.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark and lakehouse technologies, or comparable distributed data platforms.
• Experience with data modeling, incremental processing, partitioning, schema evolution and analytical query performance.
• Experience building cloud-based pipelines and integrating REST APIs, including authentication, pagination, rate limits and error handling.
• A track record of owning production reliability through automated tests, data quality checks, monitoring, incident diagnosis and recovery.
• Clear technical communication and the ability to resolve ambiguous data requirements with engineering and business partners.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD and secure handling of credentials and data access. Sound judgment when using AI coding tools and validating generated code.

• Familiarity with FinOps, cloud billing datasets, FOCUS, SaaS license utilization or cost-allocation models across cloud and shared services.
• Experience with data catalogs, workflow orchestration, observability platforms or AI-assisted anomaly detection and root-cause analysis.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most intelligent and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, 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 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 27, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

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