Senior SRE Architect — AI Platform Reliability

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

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal SRE to shape the reliability strategy for our AI Platform Runtime and related systems. You will architect scalable, secure platforms and lead initiatives spanning multiple teams, driving automation and observability at scale.

You will work with Cloud, Platform, Security, Networking, and AI/ML partners to set standards, mentor engineers, and improve availability, performance, and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture, or related roles.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field with software development experience, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience setting technical strategy and leading large-scale initiatives across teams.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, networking, Linux, Kubernetes, and public clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Java with production-grade automation experience.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and platform automation tools like Terraform, Crossplane, AWS CDK, CloudFormation.
• Deep understanding of observability with OpenTelemetry and modern metrics/logging/tracing/tools.
• Reliability engineering practices: SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, fault tolerance, incident management, postmortems.
• Track record of delivering improvements in availability, performance, or engineering productivity.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term reliability vision, architecture, and roadmap for NVIDIA’s AI Platform Runtime and related systems.
• Architect highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable distributed platforms powering AI-driven products.
• Lead design and development of AI agents, AI skills, and automation for platform operations and incident response.
• Establish platform-wide reliability standards, including SLOs, error budgets, capacity models, and readiness requirements.
• Identify systemic risks and lead cross-functional programs to improve availability and performance across teams.
• Advance observability across distributed environments using OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces, and analytics.
• Partner with senior leaders across Cloud, Platform, Security, Networking, and AI/ML to guide architectural decisions.
• Provide technical leadership during incidents and translate lessons into durable improvements.
• Develop reference architectures and automation frameworks adopted across engineering groups.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the company.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Python

Go

TypeScript

JavaScript

Java

OpenTelemetry

Reliability engineering

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal SRE to shape the reliability strategy for our AI Platform Runtime and related systems. You will architect scalable, secure platforms and lead initiatives spanning multiple teams, driving automation and observability at scale.

You will work with Cloud, Platform, Security, Networking, and AI/ML partners to set standards, mentor engineers, and improve availability, performance, and developer productivity.