Lead, Open Source CI/CD for Accelerated Computing

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 356,500; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a world-class, geographically distributed team. You will plan, mentor, and drive execution of complex system software projects while collaborating with engineering, program, and product management to define the roadmap.

The role emphasizes open-source workflows, developer tooling, and scalable CI/CD infrastructure, with equity and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of industry experience and 3+ years of software engineering management experience leading large complex system software projects.
• Deep understanding of open-source contribution workflows, including managing private and public repositories, forks, mirrors, pull requests, and automated validation gates, artifact repositories, and audit logs at scale.
• Experience building developer tooling that balances robust internal security with seamless external community contributions.
• Experience with DevOps tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Buildkite, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Deep experience architecting, provisioning, and scaling underlying CI/CD infrastructure (e.g., self-hosted runners, dynamic compute clusters, or container orchestration platforms).
• Demonstrated ability to work across organizations at all levels and experience balancing multiple projects with competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Grow and develop a world-class, geographically distributed team.
• Plan, schedule, mentor, and lead the execution of projects and activities of the team.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, program and product management, and partners to define the product roadmap.
• Continuously review and identify improvement opportunities in established processes, infrastructure, and practices to ensure the teams are performing in the most efficient and open manner.
• Own and drive efficiency, reliability, security, performance, and compliance across the infrastructure.
• Establish strong relationships and trust through excellent execution and high quality of software development, working closely with cross‑functional teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Open-source workflows

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Buildkite

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

NVIDIA seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a world-class, geographically distributed team. You will plan, mentor, and drive execution of complex system software projects while collaborating with engineering, program, and product management to define the roadmap.

The role emphasizes open-source workflows, developer tooling, and scalable CI/CD infrastructure, with equity and competitive compensation.