Principal SRE - AI Platform Reliability & Automation

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 248,000 - 397,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Hybrid work model

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Principal SRE to steer the reliability strategy for its AI Platform Runtime. You will architect highly available, scalable distributed platforms and lead the development of AI agents and automation to improve platform operations and incident response.

You will collaborate across Cloud, Platform, Security, Networking, and AI/ML teams to set standards and drive durable improvements. Equity and benefits accompany a base salary and hybrid work options.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in SRE, platform engineering, distributed systems or related roles.
• Degree in CS or equivalent software development experience.
• Proven strategy leadership across multiple teams.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, networking, Linux, Kubernetes, and public clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Strong programming skills: Python, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Java with automation focus.
• IaC and platform automation: Terraform, Crossplane, AWS CDK/CloudFormation.
• Observability at scale with OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces, analytics.
• Reliability engineering practices: SLOs, budgets, capacity, incident management, postmortems.
• Proven impact on availability, performance, or productivity in complex environments.
• Excellent judgment, communication, and collaboration to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term reliability vision, architecture, and roadmaps for NVIDIA's AI Platform Runtime.
• Design highly available, secure, scalable distributed platforms for AI-driven products.
• Lead AI agents, AI skills, and automation to speed platform operations and incident response.
• Establish platform-wide reliability standards, SLOs, error budgets, capacity models.
• Identify systemic risks and drive cross-functional improvement programs.
• Advance observability with OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, tracing, and analytics.
• Partner with Cloud, Platform, Security, Networking, and AI/ML teams for architectural decisions.
• Provide technical leadership during incidents and translate learnings into durable changes.
• Develop reference architectures and automation frameworks for multiple teams.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the company.

Skills

SRE leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Networking

Python

Go

TypeScript

Java

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

AWS CDK

AWS CloudFormation

OpenTelemetry

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Principal SRE to steer the reliability strategy for its AI Platform Runtime. You will architect highly available, scalable distributed platforms and lead the development of AI agents and automation to improve platform operations and incident response.

You will collaborate across Cloud, Platform, Security, Networking, and AI/ML teams to set standards and drive durable improvements. Equity and benefits accompany a base salary and hybrid work options.