Senior Staff Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer

Nuvia

Nuvia

Operations, Software Engineering
Santa Clara, CA, USA
USD 185,900-278,900 / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 27, 2025

Job Description

Job Posting Date

2025-08-26


Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering

General Summary:

We are seeking a Senior System Engineer to join our team. You will lead system-level design, integration, and optimization across our AI-driven Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) platform. In this role, you will work on mission-critical components spanning edge devices, backend services, and both cloud and on-prem infrastructure -- ensuring the system is reliable, secure, and highly performant at scale.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect and maintain system-level integrations between edge devices, backend services, and external systems in cloud or on-prem environments.
  • Manage large-scale system deployments, configurations, and runtime operations.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify system bottlenecks, conduct performance tuning, and improve end-to-end reliability.
  • Design and implement observability solutions, including logging, metrics, tracing, and real-time alerting, to ensure system visibility and uptime.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues involving device firmware, networking, storage, and backend services.
  • Drive system validation, stress testing, fault tolerance testing, and infrastructure optimization.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in system engineering, infrastructure, or SRE roles.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, storage and system integration.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and resolve cross-layer system issues.
  • Experience with cameras, IoT devices, video streaming, and media processing.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack.
  • Knowledge of security and privacy considerations in video surveillance systems.
  • Prior experience with performance, load, and stress testing in large-scale distributed system

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$185,900.00 - $278,900.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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