Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage

JobCubby; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 334,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

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 solutions, build automation, and ensure efficient operations of the IT ecosystem while collaborating with engineering teams.

Required is 8+ years in HPC environments with strong Python/Bash/Golang skills and experience with NetApp, Pure Storage, and Cloudian MinIO. Equity and benefits included.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience, MS with 5+ years or Ph.D. with 3+ years.
• 8+ years crafting technology solutions and resolving performance bottlenecks for HPC applications.
• Experience with Enterprise NAS like NetApp / Pure Storage and S3-based storage such as Cloudian MinIO.
• Experience with parallel/distributed filesystems such as Lustre or GPFS.
• Programming/scripting in Python, Bash, or Golang.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement on-prem HPC infrastructure with cloud integration.
• Develop scalable storage solutions for data-intensive workloads, optimizing performance and cost.
• Build tooling to automate deployment, monitoring, and self-service resource consumption.
• Document procedures, evaluate technologies related to distributed file systems.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to map infrastructure to developer workflows.
• Influence best practices for building, testing, and deploying applications.

Skills

Python

Bash

Golang

Cloud platforms

Monitoring

Distributed file systems

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Master of Science

PhD

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Cloudian MinIO

Lustre

GPFS

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Kibana

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).

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 September5, 2026.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.