Nvidia Apache Cassandra Distributed Database Engineer 

United States, California 

413640060

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people.

• Play a foundational role in molding the direction of the Apache Cassandra ecosystem at NVIDIA, helping define long-term strategy and platform capabilities.

• Construct the future of NVIDIA’s use of Cassandra, encompassing self-service provisioning, scaling, multi-tenant controls, and closely coordinated observability.

• Manage a crucial stateful system powering essential NVIDIA cloud services, ensuring smooth operations for high-throughput, low-latency production workloads on a large scale.

• Partner with developers across organizations to build effective, scalable, and long-lasting schemas.

• Lead architectural improvements that improve availability, fault tolerance, consistency, and multi-region durability.

• Establish operational standards for schema governance, disaster recovery, backup and restore, and resource management.

• Address, debug, and learn from interesting production problems at multiple layers of the infrastructure stack.

• 5+ years of experience building distributed systems with a deep understanding of Cassandra internals, including replication, compaction, GC tuning, and JVM performance.

• Experience managing large fleets of database clusters, including building tools, monitoring, capacity planning, backups, and disaster recovery strategies.

• Knowledge of AWS technologies including EC2, ELB, ECS, API Gateway, WAFs, and VPCs with provisioning automation experience.

• Proficiency in system-level fundamentals including operating systems, hardware, and networking.

• Understanding the tradeoffs of distributed system consistency, failure modes, and partition tolerance.

• Growing in a fast-paced environment, with a consistent record of delivering impactful solutions.

• Experience with HashiCorp Vault and integration into deployment processes and application security.

• Experience with data protection technologies including encryption, key management, data loss prevention, and hardware security modules.

• Contribution to open-source distributed database projects.

You will also be eligible for equity and . NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.