AI Platform & SRE Engineering Lead

Jobs in JS; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 334,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of SREs and platform engineers building and operating resilient AI platform capabilities at enterprise scale.

You will shape strategy, mentor engineers, and partner across Cloud, Security, Networking, and AI/ML teams to improve reliability and developer productivity. The role emphasizes blameless postmortems and fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE or platform engineering.
• 3+ years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Strong distributed systems, Linux, networking, Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Solid observability with metrics, logs, tracing.
• Proven ability to deliver roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience with incident response, disaster recovery, blameless postmortems.
• Experience building AI-related platform capabilities is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of SRE, platform, and software engineers for AI Platform Runtime.
• Define the team’s technical strategy, priorities, and roadmap aligned with product and business objectives.
• Guide design and delivery of highly available, scalable distributed systems.
• Drive development of AI agents, AI skills, and automation for platform operations.
• Establish reliability goals and operational practices with SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, capacity models, health metrics.
• Improve velocity and developer experience via self-service platforms and IaC.
• Coordinate with product, architecture, and leaders across Cloud, Security, Networking, Platform, AI/ML.
• Balance feature delivery, platform investment, and technical debt.
• Lead incidents and ensure blameless postmortems lead to ownership and fixes.
• Recruit and develop engineers, providing coaching and career growth.

Skills

SRE leadership

Distributed systems

Linux

Kubernetes

Public cloud

Observability

Communication

Hiring

Coaching

Roadmap planning

Tools

Python

Go

TypeScript

JavaScript

Java

OpenTelemetry

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of SREs and platform engineers building and operating resilient AI platform capabilities at enterprise scale.

You will shape strategy, mentor engineers, and partner across Cloud, Security, Networking, and AI/ML teams to improve reliability and developer productivity. The role emphasizes blameless postmortems and fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture.