Senior System Software Engineer, Platform and Performance - GeForce Now

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

9d•$224,000 - $356,500

About The Position

As a member of NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW Platform Engineering team, the Senior System Software Engineer will help design, develop, and optimize high-performance GeForce NOW gaming servers powered by NVIDIA GPUs. The role focuses on game performance optimization, Linux kernel and KVM hypervisor work, system software, and optimization at scale. It involves understanding gaming workloads and streaming software interactions across kernel and user space, bridging software and hardware for a cloud streaming service, and addressing factors that influence game performance and stability.

Requirements

Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
12+ years of experience in system software engineering for platform performance.
Knowledge of OS kernel internals, memory management, computer architecture, and CPU-to-memory architecture.
Proficiency in Python, C, C++, or Rust.
Experience working with performance-critical software, tools, and CPU/GPU schedulers.
Passion for software design and optimizing software performance.

Nice To Haves

Excellent knowledge of x86 and ARM architecture.
Prior experience with hypervisors, game engines, or virtualization platforms.
Prior experience with tools such as GPUView, Kubernetes, NVIDIA Nsight, or KernelShark.
Proficiency in debugging complex problems.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance GeForce NOW gaming servers.
Optimize game performance, Linux kernel, KVM hypervisor, system software, and systems at scale.
Understand and apply gaming workloads and streaming software interactions across kernel and user space.
Bridge software and hardware for a cloud streaming service.
Understand and apply factors that influence game performance and stability.