Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Data Platform

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Data Platform in Munich, Germany. Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.

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Uses AI ●●○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
The posting mentions Java, Spring Boot and Docker among its tools and skills.
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AI in this role

Design and build high-throughput real-time telemetry ingestion services using modern Java and distributed systems.

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Are you ready to tackle sophisticated distributed systems challenges at scale? Our Telemetry Platform team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build and evolve the services that collect and process data from millions of NVIDIA users worldwide. If you love working on high-impact infrastructure, we want to hear from you!

What you will be doing:

Design, build, and tune real-time, high-throughput services that ingest, validate, and route telemetry events from NVIDIA products worldwide.
Make ingestion durable end to end (delivery guarantees, backpressure, persistent buffering, graceful degradation) so data survives component failures.
Drive architecture for the data collection platform, including schema management and shared libraries for metrics, tracing, and configuration.
Lead design reviews, write clear documents, and mentor other engineers.
Own the services you build in production, including a shared on-call rotation and incident management.

What we need to see:

BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, and 7+ years building backend services that run in production.
Deep expertise in modern Java (17+) and Spring Boot, including concurrency, the Java Memory Model, and performance profiling.
Strong distributed systems fundamentals (microservices, event-driven architecture, delivery semantics, failure handling).
Experience running large-scale services with Docker, Kubernetes, and message brokers (Apache Kafka preferred) on AWS or another major cloud.
Hands-on experience with automated testing, CI/CD, and production observability.
Proficiency in agentic engineering (AI coding agents).
Fluent English.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Production experience with reactive, non-blocking Java (Project Reactor, Spring WebFlux, Netty).
Background in telemetry, analytics, or high-volume data ingestion.
Experience with schema management for event data: schema registries, validation, and compatible schema evolution.
Security and privacy fundamentals: authentication and authorization (OAuth 2.0, JWT), network and cloud security, and privacy regulations such as GDPR.

How we rate this

Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Data Platform at NVIDIA rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Data Platform is an open job at NVIDIA.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The role is based in Germany, Munich.
The job was posted on October 23, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by NVIDIA. Apply on NVIDIA

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Distributed SystemsBackendReal Time DataTelemetryAgentic EngineeringJavaSpring BootDocker

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Pay

Typical software engineer job: $168k

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Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
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Tell me about a project where real time data was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where telemetry was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where agentic engineering was part of your work. What did you do?

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