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Senior Manager, Developer Infrastructure and Build Engineering

NVIDIA· Mgmt, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$272k - $431.3kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior leadership role overseeing the evolution of NVIDIA’s DevOps, Build Engineering and Infrastructure teams. Responsible for building, testing, verifying, and releasing core software (CUDA driver/runtime and related libraries) and for delivering an enhanced developer experience through CI/CD and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers building employee-facing products software development, CI/CD, and agentic AI experiences.
  • Define the engineering vision, architecture, multi-quarter roadmap, and success measures for a cohesive developer experience and the platform serving a global workforce.
  • Plan and manage team execution, including project prioritization, workload balancing, achievement tracking, dependency management, and predictable delivery.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership across Perforce, Git, GitHub, GitLab, and multiple CI/CD platforms. Deliver a new platform that accelerates software development and delivery.
  • Raise the engineering bar for architecture, testing, documentation, CI/CD, maintainability, and developer productivity while guiding teams through complex technical tradeoffs.
  • Own the operational health of the team’s products and services, including reliability, performance, incident response, observability, capacity planning, and cost efficiency and ensure security, privacy, accessibility, and responsible AI principles are incorporated throughout product design and development.

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, other Engineering or related fields (or equivalent experience).
  • 12+ overall years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years leading and managing high-performing engineering teams, with a proven record of hiring, retaining, mentoring, and growing engineers, including senior and principal-level technical leaders.
  • Demonstrated success delivering build systems, CI/CD platforms and innovative developer experience in challenging situations.
  • Experience defining technical strategy and leading the architecture and delivery of distributed, full-stack software systems.
  • Deep understanding of build systems, C++, CUDA and how complex software projects are developed, built, tested and packaged. This should include extensive experience with CMake, Bazel or similar.
  • Experience working across multiple highly-coupled projects (in Git or another VCS) with complex interdependencies and automated verification to enable release readiness at all times.
  • Experience operating business-critical services with high standards for reliability, security, privacy, accessibility, and compliance.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align engineers, partners, and executives around a clear direction.

Skills

Required:Build systemsCI/CD platformsC/C++CUDALeadership

Benefits

  • equity
  • base salary plus equity and benefits per NVIDIA standards
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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