NVIDIA · 1 day ago
Principal Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$248K/yr - $391K/yr
15+ years expNVIDIA has been reinventing computer graphics and accelerated computing for 30 years, and they are seeking a highly skilled Principal Staff SRE to join their dynamic team. The role involves leading initiatives to optimize infrastructure performance, designing and deploying core services, and collaborating with various stakeholders to develop IT products that meet customer needs.
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Responsibilities
Lead initiatives to transform IT Compute Core Team, architecture to build new service offerings across On-Prem and Cloud
You will design, scale, and deploy core infrastructure services including DNS, NTP/PTP, DHCP, and LDAP. This includes building for performance and reliability at global scale, covering automation, monitoring, high availability, capacity planning, and lifecycle management
Define and implement metrics to measure the efficiency of services and drive efficiency with software and hardware optimizations (SR-IOV/ DPU)
Experience with Technologies like eBPF and XDP for Observability & DDoS mitigation
Collect and review system data for capacity and planning purposes, analyze capacity data and develop plans for appropriate level enterprise-wide systems, and coordinate with management personnel in implementing changes
Develop and maintain tools for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data for reporting, alerting, monitoring
Collaborate with NVIDIA leadership, senior engineers, program managers, and product managers to develop compelling IT products and services that meet customer needs
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent experience
15+ years of proven experience in compute platform engineering with a focus on automation
Experience in designing and deploying Containerization architectures and Distributed Systems Infrastructure
Proven experience evaluating existing application architectures and identify opportunities for containerization to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency
Strong analytical skills with the ability to define and track key performance metrics
Experience in developing tools for data analysis and performance profiling, Development with Terraform, Config Management tools
Proficiency in programming languages such as Go and/or Python
Linux OS Proficiency with Kernel Internals
Experience with running large environments consisting of BareMetal Build Infrastructure
Understanding of Network Protocols and Architectures (VLAN/VxLAN/SDN/BGP/Anycast)
Preferred
Deep understanding of other infrastructure components like, DNS, LDAP, Security Tools etc
Hands-on experience with containers and its implementation
Deploying and Managing Services like DNS, LDAP at scale
Solid understanding of microservices architecture, infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration management tools
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.09BKey Investors
ARPA-EARK Investment ManagementSoftBank Vision Fund
2023-05-09Grant· $5M
2022-08-09Post Ipo Equity· $65M
2021-02-18Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Jensen Huang
Founder and CEO
Michael Kagan
Chief Technology Officer
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