Senior Network Engineer, DGX Cloud Backbone

About the role

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Network Engineer for its Global Backbone Engineering team, which powers the DGX Cloud, a distributed AI-training and research platform. The team operates the network connecting NVIDIA's AI factories with cloud providers, and aims to design, build and run a highly reliable, scalable backbone linking global data centers, offices and cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of the global backbone, including inter-data center connectivity, POP design, long-haul optical transport and peering strategy.
• Implement, manage and troubleshoot the full backbone stack, from optical layer through IP/MPLS and traffic engineering.
• Automate backbone infrastructure end-to-end, including circuit provisioning, capacity management, monitoring and failure detection.

Required profile

• 8+ years of network engineering experience, with a strong focus on backbone/WAN or carrier-grade environments.
• Proven track record of architecting, building and operating a backbone or WAN spanning multiple continents, serving thousands of machines and millions of traffic flows.
• BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Great communication and presentation skills.

Required skills

• Backbone protocols: MPLS, SR-MPLS, BGP-LU, RSVP-TE, IS-IS, OSPF, MP-BGP, BFD, QoS, MACsec, IPFIX/NetFlow.
• Optical transport: DWDM, coherent optics, OTN, 400G/800G long-haul circuits.
• Peering and IXP connectivity, transit provider management and BGP policy and traffic engineering.
• Routing platforms such as Juniper MX/PTX, Cisco ASR/NCS or equivalent carrier-grade systems.
• Python/Shell scripting for automation, dashboards and alarming.