Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes Platform

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CAAustin, TXDurham, NC
Salary
$184,000–$287,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
4 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

Nvidia currently has 1623 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes Platform

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.

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

  • Own the end-to-end lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters across on-premises datacenters and managed cloud providers.
  • Define and implement multi-cluster strategies for versioning, patching, node image pipelines, and safe upgrade mechanics.
  • Manage infrastructure through Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, and declarative configurations to eliminate manual cluster changes.
  • Design for failure by establishing explicit fault domains, blast-radius containment, and disciplined change control.
  • Build end-to-end observability systems using metrics, logs, and traces to enable data-driven and auto-healing operations.
  • Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and publish high-quality RCAs to improve system reliability.
  • Partner with engineering teams to design and implement operational improvements for stateful, license-constrained, and GPU-accelerated workloads.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of experience building and supporting critical production services.
  • Deep, hands-on experience running and debugging Kubernetes components like etcd, kubelet, CNI, CSI, and the API server.
  • Production experience with CSP-managed Kubernetes (e.g., EKS, GKE, RKE, OpenShift) and self-managed on-premises Kubernetes.
  • Strong command of CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, or Flux.
  • 5+ years of coding/scripting experience in at least two languages such as Go, Python, Perl, or Ruby.
  • Demonstrated experience building large-scale infrastructure platforms for automated host lifecycle management, fleet reliability, and end-to-end observability.
  • Familiarity with EDA/silicon-design workflows, license management, or running stateful/GPU-accelerated workloads on Kubernetes (preferred).

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