Principal SRE: AI Platform Reliability Leader (Equity)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Finance) to shape the reliability strategy for the AI Platform Runtime and lead cross‑functional initiatives at enterprise scale.

You will architect scalable, observable systems, drive automation, and guide incident response while mentoring senior engineers and influencing architecture across Cloud, Platform, Security, and AI groups.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in SRE/platform engineering or related roles.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience setting technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, networking, Linux, Kubernetes, and public clouds.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Java with automation experience.
• Extensive IaC and platform automation experience (Terraform, Crossplane, AWS CDK/CFN).
• Strong observability know-how with OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces, and analytics.
• Experience with SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, DR, postmortems.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term reliability vision and architecture for NVIDIA's AI Platform Runtime.
• Architect highly available, scalable distributed platforms powering AI products.
• Lead design of AI agents and automation to speed platform operations and incident response.
• Set platform reliability standards including SLOs, budgets, and capacity models.
• Identify systemic risks and drive cross-functional improvement programs.
• Advance observability across complex environments using OpenTelemetry and analytics.
• Collaborate with Cloud, Platform, Security, Networking, and AI teams on architecture decisions.
• Provide technical leadership during incidents and translate learnings into durable improvements.
• Develop reference architectures and automation frameworks for adoption across teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise technical standards across the company.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Go

TypeScript

JavaScript

Java

Terraform

Crossplane

AWS CDK

AWS CloudFormation

OpenTelemetry

Observability

Distributed systems

Incident management

Blameless postmortems

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

AWS CDK

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Finance) to shape the reliability strategy for the AI Platform Runtime and lead cross‑functional initiatives at enterprise scale.

You will architect scalable, observable systems, drive automation, and guide incident response while mentoring senior engineers and influencing architecture across Cloud, Platform, Security, and AI groups.