Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on HPC storage to design, implement, and optimize on-prem storage with cloud integration. You will craft distributed storage, build automation tooling, and ensure efficient operations of our growing IT ecosystem.

You will work with Lustre/GPFS, NetApp, Pure Storage, and Cloudian MinIO, leveraging AWS/Azure/GCP and monitoring stacks to keep systems reliable and scalable in a fast-paced HPC environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of HPC storage experience or equivalent; strong performance tuning.
• Experience with NetApp/Pure Storage and S3-based storage (Cloudian MinIO).
• Proficient with Lustre or GPFS file systems.
• Python/Bash/Golang scripting and automation.
• Experience in AWS/Azure/GCP environments and monitoring stacks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement on-prem HPC storage with cloud integration.
• Develop scalable storage solutions for data-intensive apps.
• Build automation tooling for deployment and management.
• Document procedures, evaluations, and best practices.
• Collaborate with engineering to meet infrastructure needs.
• Influence deployment methodologies for performance and cost efficiency.

Skills

HPC storage

Cloud computing

Automation tooling

Distributed file systems

Python/Bash/Golang

Cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Monitoring stacks

Communication skills

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS or PhD a plus

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Cloudian MinIO

Lustre

GPFS

Docker

Kubernetes

Slurm

PBS

LSF

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Splunk

Zabbix

Job description

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables unique creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions, from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

Join our team at NVIDIA as a Senior Site reliability engineer focused on HPC storage and play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing on-prem High-Performance Computing (HPC) storage solutions while harnessing the power of cloud computing. You will be responsible for crafting and deploying distributed storage solutions, build automation tools, and ensuring the efficient operations of our growing IT ecosystem. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams to align infrastructure with their evolving needs, document best practices, and contribute to the success of ground breaking projects.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, implement an on-prem HPC infrastructure supplemented with cloud computing to support the growing IT needs of NVIDIA.
• Design and implement scalable and efficient Storage solutions tailored for data-intensive applications, optimizing performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Develop tooling to automate deployment and management of large-scale infrastructure environments, to automate operational monitoring and alerting, and to enable self-service consumption of resources.
• Document the general procedures and practices, perform technology evaluations, related to distributed file systems.
• Collaborate across teams to better understand developers' workflows and gather their infrastructure requirements.
• Influence and guide methodologies for building, testing, and deploying applications to ensure optimal performance and resource utilization.

What We Need See

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience, MS with 5+ years of experience or Ph.D. with 3 years of experience.
• 8+ years of experience crafting technology solutions and resolving performance bottlenecks for HPC applications.
• Design, deployment and management of Enterprise NAS solutions like NetApp, Pure Storage and S3 based storage such as cloudian MinIO. Design, deployment, and management of Enterprise NAS solutions like NetApp, Pure Storage, and S3-based storage such as Cloudian MinIO.
• Experience with one or more parallel or distributed filesystems such as Lustre, GPFS.
• Python/Bash/Golang programming/scripting experience.
• Strong Experience operating services in any of the leading Cloud environment [ AWS, Azure or GCP].
• Experience with multiple monitoring stacks such as Prometheus+Grafana, Elasticsearch+Kibana, Splunk, Zabbix, etc. Familiarity with newer and emerging monitoring products.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Ways To Stand Out Of The Crowd

• Background with RDMA (InfiniBand or RoCE) fabrics.
• Prior Experience with HPC cluster management tools such as Slurm, PBS, LSF, etc.
• Experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker, Mesosphere DCOS, Kubernetes (k8s).

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 270,250 USD for Level 4, and 208,000 USD - 333,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 5, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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