Senior Manager, Developer Infrastructure and Build Engineering

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$272,000–$431,250 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
12 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

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Above market

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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

Nvidia currently has 1623 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Developer Infrastructure and Build Engineering

The Senior Manager, Developer Infrastructure and Build Engineering leads the DevOps, Build Engineering and Infrastructure team. This leadership role involves building and guiding a high-performing engineering team responsible for building, testing, verifying, and releasing core software that enables the delivery of the CUDA driver, runtime, and language-specific libraries. You will define the engineering vision, architecture, and multi-quarter roadmap for a cohesive developer experience and platform. Key responsibilities include managing team execution, project prioritization, and providing hands-on technical leadership across Perforce, Git, GitHub, GitLab, and multiple CI/CD platforms. You will utilize C++, Python, Rust, CMake, and Bazel to manage complex software projects with highly-coupled interdependencies. The role solves the technical problem of accelerating software development and delivery for a global workforce while ensuring reliability, security, and observability.

What you'll do

  • Lead, hire, and mentor a high-performing engineering team focused on software development, CI/CD, and agentic AI experiences.
  • Define the engineering vision, multi-quarter roadmap, and architecture for a cohesive developer experience platform.
  • Manage team execution by prioritizing projects, balancing workloads, and tracking dependencies to ensure predictable delivery.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership across Perforce, Git, GitHub, GitLab, and various CI/CD platforms.
  • Deliver a new platform that accelerates software development and improves developer productivity.
  • Own the operational health of products, including reliability, performance, incident response, and capacity planning.
  • Ensure security, privacy, accessibility, and responsible AI principles are integrated into all product designs.

What we're looking for

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Software engineering experience.
  • 6+ years of experience leading and managing high-performing engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated success delivering build systems, CI/CD platforms, and innovative developer experiences.
  • Experience defining technical strategy and leading the architecture of distributed, full-stack software systems.
  • Deep understanding of build systems, C++, CUDA, and experience with CMake or Bazel.
  • Experience operating business-critical services with high standards for reliability, security, and compliance.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to align engineers, partners, and executives.

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