Senior Object Storage Engineer — DGX Cloud (Exabyte-scale)

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 334,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to own fleet automation, storage internals, and observability for petabyte-scale data. You’ll drive SLOs, automate provisioning, and collaborate across hardware, network, and software teams to sustain 24/7 AI workloads.

The role requires 8+ years in production engineering, strong Linux and Python skills, and expertise with S3-like storage systems.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in SRE, production engineering, or infrastructure operations, including 3+ years running distributed object storage in production at petabyte scale or larger.
• Deep knowledge of object storage internals, data placement, replication, erasure coding, consistency, and S3 API semantics.
• Strong Linux skills on bare metal across storage, networking, and performance analysis.
• Diagnosing hardware faults at fleet scale and coordinating with vendors to resolve them.
• Python and shell for automation, plus hands-on infrastructure as code with Ansible, Git workflows, and CI/CD.
• Experience building observability with Prometheus and Grafana, defining SLOs, and writing postmortems, runbooks, and design docs.

Responsibilities

• Defining SLOs for availability, latency, and durability and using error budgets with DGX Cloud platform teams.
• Automating the fleet lifecycle from provisioning to updates and failure replacement.
• Bringing new data halls and regions into production with partners.
• Shipping storage software and configuration through CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Forecasting capacity with hardware and supply chain teams and tuning performance for AI workloads.
• Delivering 24/7 operational excellence and support with a global on-call rotation.

Skills

SRE / Production Engineering

Python

Shell scripting

CI/CD

Observability

Prometheus / Grafana

IaC (Ansible)

Education

BS degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

Git workflows

CI/CD tooling

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to own fleet automation, storage internals, and observability for petabyte-scale data. You’ll drive SLOs, automate provisioning, and collaborate across hardware, network, and software teams to sustain 24/7 AI workloads.

The role requires 8+ years in production engineering, strong Linux and Python skills, and expertise with S3-like storage systems.