Senior Network Engineer, DGX Cloud - Backbone

Overview

• NVIDIA is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join the Global Backbone Engineering team.
• Powering NVIDIA's DGX Cloud — a distributed AI-training and research platform — the team operates the network enabling the infrastructure's worldwide presence.
• They architect and scale the long-haul, high-capacity connectivity that bridges NVIDIA's AI factories with cloud providers, engineering optimized fiber paths, intelligent traffic routing, and industry-leading network technology to deliver flexibility and performance for intensive AI workloads across this expanding ecosystem.
• The goal is to design, build, and operate a highly reliable, scalable, and efficient backbone network that interconnects NVIDIA's global data centers, offices, and cloud environments — the foundational layer that enables AI training clusters, GPU compute fabrics, and software development pipelines to operate at peak performance worldwide.
• To achieve this goal, we are looking for an engineer with a deep understanding of large-scale WAN/backbone architectures, optical transport, and IP/MPLS technologies, and a proven track record of building and delivering carrier-grade networks.
• What You Will Be Doing: Lead the overall architecture and design of NVIDIA's global backbone network, including inter-DC connectivity, POP design, long-haul optical transport, and peering strategy.
• Implement, manage, and troubleshoot the full backbone network stack, from optical layer through IP/MPLS and traffic engineering.
• Automate backbone network infrastructure end-to-end, including circuit provisioning, capacity management, monitoring, and failure detection.
• What We Need To See: Expert knowledge in large-scale backbone networking technologies and protocols, including: MPLS, SR-MPLS, BGP-LU, RSVP-TE, IS-IS, OSPF, MP-BGP, BFD, QoS, MACsec, and IPFIX/NetFlow.
• Hands-on experience with backbone interconnect and optical transport technologies: DWDM, coherent optics, passive and active optical networking, OTN, and 400G/800G long-haul circuits.
• Deep experience with peering and internet exchange: PNI, transit provider management, IXP connectivity, and BGP policy and traffic engineering at scale.
• Ability to write and understand Python/Shell scripts and programs for automation, tooling, capacity planning dashboards, and network alarming.
• Strong familiarity with backbone-class routing platforms such as Juniper MX/PTX, Cisco ASR/NCS, or equivalent carrier-grade systems.
• You have architected, built, and operated a backbone or WAN network spanning multiple continents, serving thousands of machines and millions of traffic flows.
• Hands-on experience with high-performance network optimization in highly-available, large-scale, multisite, international environments.
• Great communication and presentation skills.
• 8+ years of experience in network engineering, with substantial focus on backbone/WAN or carrier-grade environments.
• BS Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd: Hands-on background building tooling and automation for backbone provisioning, real-time monitoring, and capacity management.
• Experience designing and operating networks at hyperscaler or major ISP/carrier scale, including traffic engineering and ECMP optimization across global POPs.
• Passionate about innovating and investing in groundbreaking networking technologies such as segment routing, intent-based networking, and AIOps for network operations.
• NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization.
• The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services.
• Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars.
• NVIDIA is looking for great people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.