NVIDIA · 18 hours ago
Principal Data and Asset Management Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$248K/yr - $391K/yr
15+ years expNVIDIA has pioneered visual computing for over two decades, delivering specialized platforms for various markets. The role involves leading the design and evolution of NVIDIA’s enterprise asset management and CMDB platforms, ensuring data accuracy and availability across infrastructure and services.
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Responsibilities
Architect and lead the design of enterprise-scale CMDB and asset management systems, defining authoritative data models for infrastructure, software, services, and their relationships across the lifecycle
Own the data architecture and integration strategy for asset and configuration data, spanning discovery systems, provisioning tools, cloud platforms, monitoring systems, and internal services
Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest, normalize, validate, and reconcile asset data from many heterogeneous sources
Establish and enforce data quality standards, including validation rules, reconciliation logic, lineage, and auditing to ensure CMDB accuracy and trustworthiness
Build and evolve highly reliable APIs and data services that enable engineers, IT, and business systems to query and manage asset and configuration data at scale
Develop automation for asset lifecycle management (onboarding, change, decommissioning), dependency tracking, and impact analysis
Partner closely with infrastructure, SRE, IT, security, and finance teams to ensure CMDB data supports operational workflows, compliance, capacity planning, and cost attribution
Provide technical leadership and mentorship, influencing best practices in data engineering, system design, and operational excellence across the organization. Drive technical roadmap decisions, evaluate technologies, and lead complex initiatives from design through production
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
15+ Years of Software engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing and owning complex, long-lived systems
Deep experience building data-intensive backend systems, including ETL pipelines, data services, and production APIs
Strong expertise in Python (and/or Go) for data pipelines, automation, and service development
Hands-on experience with CMDBs, asset inventory systems, or large-scale metadata platforms, including schema design and relationship modeling
Experience implementing data validation, reconciliation, and monitoring in production environments
Solid understanding of CI/CD, containerized deployments, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)
Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases and designing scalable data models
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred
Experience designing or operating a centralized CMDB as a system of record for infrastructure and services
Familiarity with discovery tooling, event-driven updates, or near-real-time asset synchronization
Experience with data governance, lineage, access control, and compliance in enterprise environments
Background in FinOps, capacity planning, or operational analytics powered by asset data
Experience influencing architecture and standards across multiple teams or organizations
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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$4.09BKey Investors
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Founder and CEO
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Chief Technology Officer
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