Senior Staff Engineer - Enterprise Messaging and Exchange

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Senior Staff Engineer to architect, implement, and operate enterprise messaging platforms, focusing on Microsoft Exchange, Azure services, and email security. The role involves ensuring high availability, reliability, and security of global communication services, with a focus on automation and strategic enhancement of messaging ecosystems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect, implement, and operate highly available messaging solutions using Microsoft Exchange (on-premises/hybrid/Exchange Online), Azure services, SMTP relays, and IMAP; establish and enforce architecture standards and best practices across regions/environments.
  2. Plan and execute server upgrades and monthly patching; ensure configurations and changes meet compliance and audit requirements.
  3. Monitor health, performance, and capacity; analyze logs/traces and protocol flows to prevent incidents, minimize downtime, and optimize throughput and user experience.
  4. Provide expert-level diagnosis and resolution for complex mail flow issues; deep knowledge of SMTP/IMAP, connectors, transport rules, and messaging architecture.
  5. Implement encryption, email authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), and anti-virus/anti-spam protections (e.g., Microsoft Defender); maintain secure configurations and hardening baselines.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 8+ years of proven experience architecting and managing Exchange Server (on-prem & SE), hybrid/Exchange Online (O365), Public Folders, SMTP, Active Directory, Azure integrations.
  • Demonstrable ability to take end-to-end ownership of the experience for the users of the services.
  • Solid understanding of Exchange architecture, including concepts such as DAGs (Database Availability Groups), hybrid configurations,
  • Extremely motivated, highly passionate, and curious about new technologies.
  • Take pride in your work and strive to achieve incredible results and possess superb communication and planning skills.
  • Ability to work successfully with multi-functional teams, principals, and architects. Coordinates optimally across organizational boundaries and geographies.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
  • Proficiency in PowerShell scripting for automation is crucial

Nice to have

  • Python scripting is a plus
  • Experience leading large scale messaging platforms and driving resolution for critical severity issues.
  • Passion to leverage Agentic AI to automate operations and reliability of services.
  • Knowledge of networking concepts related to email (DNS, VIP routing etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of proven experience architecting and managing Exchange Server (on-prem & SE), hybrid/Exchange Online (O365), Public Folders, SMTP, Active Directory, Azure integrations.
  • Proficiency in PowerShell scripting for automation is crucial