Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Nvidia

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$248,000–$396,750 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
49 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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About Nvidia

Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Principal Site Reliability Engineer

JOB TITLE: Principal Site Reliability Engineer The Principal Site Reliability Engineer joins the Site Reliability Engineering team to shape the technical direction of the AI Platform Runtime. This role involves defining the long-term architecture and roadmap for reliability across enterprise systems, specifically focusing on building highly available, secure, and scalable distributed platforms for AI-driven products. Key responsibilities include leading the development of AI agents and intelligent automation for incident response, establishing platform-wide service-level objectives, and advancing observability. The candidate must possess deep expertise in distributed systems, networking, Linux, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP. Required technical skills include proficiency in Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Java, alongside experience with Terraform, Crossplane, and OpenTelemetry to solve complex reliability and performance problems at scale.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define the long-term technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for reliability across the AI Platform Runtime.
  • Architect highly available, resilient, and scalable distributed platforms for next-generation AI products.
  • Lead the design and development of AI agents and intelligent automation to accelerate platform operations and incident response.
  • Establish platform-wide reliability standards including service-level objectives, error budgets, and capacity models.
  • Advance observability across distributed environments using OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces, and automated anomaly detection.
  • Lead cross-functional programs to identify systemic risks and improve availability, security, and developer productivity.
  • Provide technical leadership during critical incidents and translate lessons into durable engineering improvements.
  • Develop reference architectures and automation frameworks for adoption across multiple engineering organizations.

What we're looking for

  • 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 for building production-grade automation.
  • Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and platform automation technologies such as Terraform, Crossplane, AWS CDK, or AWS CloudFormation.
  • Deep understanding of observability at scale, including OpenTelemetry and modern metrics, logging, tracing, profiling, and analytics platforms.
  • Expertise in reliability engineering practices including SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and incident management.

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