Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

NVIDIA AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a highly skilled Senior Staff SRE to join our team in Bengaluru. You will lead efforts to transform IT Compute Core architecture, build scalable services for On-Prem and Cloud, and drive performance metrics across global infrastructure.

The role emphasizes automation, observability with eBPF/XDP, and collaboration with product and program teams. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in containerized distributed systems, Terraform, and IaC practices, with strong Go/Python

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, CS, Math, or related field.
• 15+ years of compute platform engineering with automation focus.
• Experience designing containerization and distributed system infrastructure.
• Proven ability to evaluate architectures for containerization to improve scalability.
• Strong analytical skills with KPI-driven approach.
• Experience developing data analysis tools; Terraform and config management.
• Proficiency in Go and/or Python.
• Linux OS proficiency with kernel internals.
• Experience with BareMetal build infrastructure.
• Understanding of VLAN/VxLAN/SDN/BGP/Anycast.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to transform IT Compute Core Team architecture for new services across On-Prem and Cloud.
• Design, scale, and deploy core infrastructure services including DNS, NTP/PTP, DHCP, and LDAP.
• Define and implement metrics to measure service efficiency and optimize with software/hardware changes.
• Apply eBPF/XDP for observability and DDoS mitigation.
• Analyze capacity data and coordinate enterprise-wide changes with management.
• Develop and maintain tools for data collection, analysis and visualization for reporting and alerting.
• Collaborate with leadership, senior engineers, PMs, and product managers to shape IT products/services.

Skills

Automation

Containerization

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Linux kernel

Performance monitoring

Capacity planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, CS, Math, or related field

Tools

Terraform

eBPF

XDP

Job description

Job Requisition ID JR2024324

Job Category Engineering

Time Type Full time

NVIDIA has been reinventing computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for 30 years. It is a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, generative AI, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff SRE to join our dynamic team. Our company is at the forefront of technological innovation, and we are dedicated to driving efficiency and optimizing the performance of our infrastructure both on-prem and cloud. Join us in this exciting endeavor!

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead initiatives to transform IT Compute Core Team, architecture to build new service offerings across On-Prem and Cloud
• You will design, scale, and deploy core infrastructure services including DNS, NTP/PTP, DHCP, and LDAP. This includes building for performance and reliability at global scale, covering automation, monitoring, high availability, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
• Define and implement metrics to measure the efficiency of services and drive efficiency with software and hardware optimizations (SR-IOV/ DPU)
• Experience with Technologies like eBPF and XDP for Observability & DDoS mitigation
• Collect and review system data for capacity and planning purposes, analyze capacity data and develop plans for appropriate level enterprise-wide systems, and coordinate with management personnel in implementing changes.
• Develop and maintain tools for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data for reporting, alerting, monitoring.
• Collaborate with NVIDIA leadership, senior engineers, program managers, and product managers to develop compelling IT products and services that meet customer needs.

What We Need To See

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of proven experience in compute platform engineering with a focus on automation.
• Experience in designing and deploying Containerization architectures and Distributed Systems Infrastructure
• Proven experience evaluating existing application architectures and identify opportunities for containerization to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to define and track key performance metrics.
• Experience in developing tools for data analysis and performance profiling, Development with Terraform, Config Management tools.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go and/or Python.
• Linux OS Proficiency with Kernel Internals
• Experience with running large environments consisting of BareMetal Build Infrastructure
• Understanding of Network Protocols and Architectures (VLAN/VxLAN/SDN/BGP/Anycast)

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Deep understanding of other infrastructure components like, DNS, LDAP, Security Tools etc..
• Hands-on experience with containers and its implementation
• Deploying and Managing Services like DNS , LDAP at scale
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture, infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration management tools.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and passionate people on the planet working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!