Senior Software Engineer, Attestation Services - DGX Cloud

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As part of the DGX Cloud organization, the Attestation Services team is building the unified trust layer for Confidential Compute and NVIDIA-wide platforms. In this role, you will architect and operate a global, cloud-native attestation platform that proves the integrity and authenticity of NVIDIA systems at scale. You’ll own highly available, multi-tenant services and APIs that meet 99.9%+ uptime targets. You’ll partner directly with security, silicon, and cloud engineering teams to turn embedded hardware trust mechanisms and attestation standards into reliable, self-service cloud capabilities. If you are passionate about building foundational security and trust services with company-wide impact, we’d love to have you on the team.

What you will be doing:

• Lead the development and build of NVIDIA's attestation platform. Establish a single source of trust for the integrity of physical devices and digital systems across Data Center, Automotive, Networking, and AI ecosystems.

• Define and evolve a unified attestation strategy across hardware roots of trust, firmware, and runtime integrity — partnering with security, silicon, platform, and software teams to deliver end-to-end trust from silicon to customer-facing SDKs.

• Develop highly available, low-latency global cloud services, RESTful APIs, SDKs, and CLIs with 99.9%+ availability, horizontal scalability, automated rollouts, and robust observability.

• Architect adaptable, rule-based appraisal policy engines (e.g., Open Policy Agent) for evaluating attestation evidence against endorsements and reference values across diverse compliance and security requirements.

• Integrate attestation with firmware signing chains, provenance verification, and software bill of materials (SBOM) to ensure end-to-end supply chain trust across NVIDIA's hardware and software portfolio.

• Advocate for and implement IETF RATS (RFC 9334) and related specifications such as Entity Attestation Tokens (EAT), driving interoperability with customer and partner ecosystems via both passport and background-check interaction models.

• Define and promote secure development, deployment, and operational guidelines incorporating SRE principles for observability, reliability, automation, and incident response.

• Mentor engineers and develop a culture of engineering excellence, clear design thinking, and high-quality execution.

What we need to see:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 12+ years of experience designing and building large-scale, distributed systems and cloud services, with at least 3 years focused on security, attestation, or trusted computing.

• Strong programming proficiency in C or C++; experience with additional languages such as Rust, Go, or Python is a strong plus.

• Experience with device or software attestation, including remote attestation protocols, challenge-response flows, and trust model design (verifier, relying party, endorser, reference value provider).

• Solid understanding of cryptographic concepts, PKI, attestation token formats (JWT, CWT, EAT), and platform security technologies including TEEs (Intel SGX/TDX, AMD SEV-SNP), TPMs, DICE, and SPDM.

• Proven track record building and operating scalable REST APIs and microservices in production.

• Experience with cloud-native platforms: Kubernetes, Docker/containers, and CI/CD pipeline development and management.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-functional technical projects from architecture through deployment and long-term operation.

• Excellent communication and analytical skills; able to thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:

• Hands-on experience with GPU or accelerator attestation (e.g., NVIDIA Hopper/Blackwell Confidential Computing attestation reports, CC mode verification), as well as embedded security modules and TEE platforms (TPM2, AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX/SGX, Nitro Enclaves).

• Proven experience architecting and scaling attestation services in production environments.

• Experience with secure API communication (mTLS, token signing, certificate management) and secret/key storage solutions (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager).

• Strong knowledge of the IETF RATS architecture (RFC 9334) and associated attestation standards, including attestation evidence formats and verification flows — EAT claims, CBOR/COSE structures, and endorsement matching.

• Experience maintaining or contributing to open-source repositories is a bonus, with extra credit for projects directly related to attestation, confidential computing, or security (e.g., Veraison, Confidential Containers, or relevant IETF/TCG efforts) as well as proven track record designing rule-based policy architectures tailored to attestation appraisal and compliance requirements.

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 6, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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