Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nvidia

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Work type
Remote
Location
CA
Salary
$168,000–$270,250 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $144,875–$214,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $219k versus about $179k for comparable roles.

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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 1655 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Production Engineering team, where the focus is on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale GPU cloud infrastructure. You will reduce manual toil by developing automation frameworks, self-healing systems, observability platforms, and infrastructure-as-code pipelines supporting thousands of machines. Key responsibilities include managing the full lifecycle of services from architecture to deployment, handling large-scale GPU and Kubernetes production environments, and building tools for OS provisioning, patching, and image deployment. You must demonstrate expertise in Python and/or Go, Linux systems administration, and container technologies. The role requires utilizing tools like Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and PagerDuty to manage data center systems, including DCIM, compute, storage, and networking control planes, to ensure high availability and reliability for accelerated computing infrastructure.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 65 postings across 17 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build production-grade automation frameworks to reduce manual work across provisioning, patching, and image deployment.
  • Develop software tools and platforms that integrate DCIM, observability stacks, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Monitor and manage large-scale GPU and Kubernetes production environments using advanced observability tooling.
  • Build predictive and auto-healing systems by integrating incident analysis into automated self-remediation solutions.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and conduct blameless postmortems to drive systematic root-cause improvements.
  • Scale systems sustainably by developing self-service tools that improve reliability and engineering velocity.
  • Manage the full lifecycle of services from initial architecture and development through deployment and operations.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience in SRE, production engineering, or infrastructure software engineering supporting large-scale, highly available environments.
  • BS/BTech in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong software development skills with expertise in Python and/or Go to build production-quality tools and services.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Linux systems administration, and container technologies for large-scale bare-metal and cloud infrastructure.
  • Confirmed experience building data center automation tools for OS provisioning, image deployment, patching, packaging, and configuration management.
  • Experience with CI/CD tooling and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
  • Strong understanding of observability practices including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and alerting design.
  • Excellent communication skills to present technical work persuasively across multi-functional teams.

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