Apache Cassandra Distributed Database Engineer

Nvidia • Santa Clara, CA

158d • $168,000 - $264,500

About The Position

Join NVIDIA's diverse team as an Apache Cassandra Database Engineer in Santa Clara, CA, and play a pivotal role in our journey to redefine computing. At NVIDIA, we're not just about redefining computer graphics and PC gaming; we're at the forefront of AI innovation. As a pivotal team member, you will have the opportunity to build the evolution of our Cassandra ecosystem, encouraging both technological progress and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Generous benefits package
• Equity eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing