Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA is a technology company advancing computer graphics, gaming, accelerated computing, and artificial intelligence. The Senior Software Engineer will secure large-scale infrastructure, high-performance computing environments, and AI cluster systems by developing security controls, responding to incidents, reducing cybersecurity risks, and improving security governance and operational practices.

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; 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

Skills

• 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
• 8+ yrs of relevant experience
• Developing secure software in Rust, prioritizing memory safety
• 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, Slurm alongside parallel filesystems like Lustre and NFS
• Experience securing containerized workloads (Docker, Enroot, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of high-speed fabric security like InfiniBand PKeys/MKeys
• Zero Trust, ZTNA, VRFs, VLANs, performance-optimized firewalls
• Use of advanced vulnerability management and supply chain mitigation (CVSS 4.0, SBOM)

Benefits

• You will also be eligible for equity

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