Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes Platform
SpaceX
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This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $142,500–$215,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $236k versus about $179k for comparable roles.
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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.
Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$287,500 across 1110 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Kubernetes Platform joins the team responsible for the platform supporting chip design workloads. You will own Kubernetes clusters end-to-end across on-premises datacenters and managed cloud environments like EKS, GKE, RKE, and Red Hat OpenShift. Responsibilities include planning, delivering, and operating clusters, defining multi-cluster lifecycle strategies, and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps workflows. You will build end-to-end observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry while managing stateful jobs and license-constrained EDA tooling. Required skills include deep experience with etcd, kubelet, CNI, CSI, and container runtimes, alongside proficiency in Go, Python, Perl, or Ruby. You will solve complex reliability problems for high-performance shared storage and latency-sensitive access within large-scale EDA compute farms to ensure stable chip production schedules.
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Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.
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