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Principal Site Reliability Engineer

NVIDIA· Site Reliability Engineering
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Santa Clara, CA$248k - $396.8kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Principal SRE shaping technical direction for NVIDIA’s AI Platform Runtime, leading reliability initiatives across multiple organizations, and advancing AI-assisted platform operations and developer productivity in a large-scale AI infrastructure environment.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for reliability across NVIDIA’s AI Platform Runtime and related enterprise systems.
  • Architect highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable distributed platforms that power NVIDIA’s next-generation AI-driven products and services.
  • Lead the design and development of AI agents, AI skills, and intelligent automation that accelerate platform operations, incident response, troubleshooting, and remediation.
  • Establish platform-wide reliability standards, including service-level objectives, error budgets, capacity models, resilience patterns, and operational readiness requirements.
  • Identify systemic risks and lead cross-functional programs that improve availability, scalability, performance, security, and developer productivity.
  • Advance observability across complex distributed environments through OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces, profiling, analytics, and automated anomaly detection.
  • Partner with senior leaders and engineers across Cloud, Platform, Security, Networking, and AI/ML organizations to make high-impact architectural and investment decisions.
  • Provide technical leadership during critical incidents and ensure that lessons from incidents translate into durable engineering and organizational improvements.
  • Develop reference architectures, shared platform capabilities, and automation frameworks that can be adopted across multiple engineering organizations.
  • Influence, mentor, and raise the technical bar for senior engineers and technical leaders throughout the company.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture, or related infrastructure engineering roles.
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving significant software development, or equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated experience setting technical strategy and leading large-scale engineering initiatives across multiple teams or organizations.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, networking, Linux, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Java, with experience building production-grade automation and platform software.
  • Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and platform automation technologies such as Terraform, Crossplane, AWS CDK, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
  • Deep understanding of observability at scale, including OpenTelemetry and modern metrics, logging, tracing, profiling, and analytics platforms.
  • Expertise in reliability engineering practices, including service-level objectives, error budgets, capacity planning, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, incident management, and blameless postmortems.
  • A track record of delivering measurable improvements in availability, performance, operational efficiency, or engineering productivity within complex environments.
  • Outstanding technical judgment, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across technical and organizational boundaries.

Skills

Required:Site Reliability EngineeringDistributed SystemsKubernetesOpenTelemetryProgrammingInfrastructure as Code

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (as per company page)
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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