Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage

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Santa Clara, CA, USA
In-Office
168K-322K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Hardware • Robotics • Metaverse
The Role
Design, deploy, and operate on-prem HPC storage supplemented by cloud. Build and automate distributed storage solutions, monitoring, and tooling; optimize performance and cost; document practices; collaborate with engineering teams to support data-intensive workloads and ensure reliable infrastructure operations.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 14, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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.

Skills Required

  • BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years, MS with 5+ years, or Ph.D. with 3 years of experience.
  • 8+ years crafting technology solutions and resolving performance bottlenecks for HPC applications.
  • Design, deployment, and management of Enterprise NAS solutions like NetApp and Pure Storage, and S3-based storage such as Cloudian/MinIO.
  • Experience with parallel or distributed filesystems such as Lustre or GPFS.
  • Programming/scripting experience in Python, Bash, and Golang.
  • Strong experience operating services in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Experience with monitoring stacks such as Prometheus+Grafana, Elasticsearch+Kibana, Splunk, or Zabbix.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Background with RDMA (InfiniBand or RoCE) fabrics.
  • Prior experience with HPC cluster management tools such as Slurm, PBS, or LSF.
  • Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Mesosphere DCOS, or Kubernetes (k8s).

NVIDIA Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NVIDIA and has not been reviewed or approved by NVIDIA.

  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity awards and a discounted ESPP are highlighted as core parts of total compensation, enabling employees to share in the company’s success. Stock-based compensation and the two-year lookback ESPP are consistently described as especially valuable.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is portrayed as robust, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options alongside mental health support and on-site care resources. Employer HSA contributions and wellness perks reinforce the depth of the offering.
  • Retirement Support Retirement programs are depicted as strong, featuring a meaningful 401(k) match with Roth options and support for Mega Backdoor Roth contributions. These elements position long-term savings as a notable advantage of the total rewards package.

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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
21,960 Employees
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”

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