NVIDIA · 9 hours ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$184K/yr - $288K/yr
10+ years expNVIDIA sits at the center of the AI revolution, and they are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to work on their data and observability platforms. The role involves architecting and operating large-scale observability systems, designing resilient pipelines, and collaborating with various teams to enhance operational reliability.
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Responsibilities
Architecting and operating large-scale observability systems that span global regions and support AI, data, and platform services
Designing resilient pipelines for metrics, logs, traces, profiling, and events that keep critical systems visible and debuggable
Working closely with platform, infrastructure, and application teams to establish telemetry standards, instrumentation patterns, and integration workflows
Automating deployments, scaling workflows, and maintenance tasks to cut down toil and level up operational maturity across the stack
Defining and maintaining SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, dashboards, and alerting models that guide reliability decisions company-wide
Building self-service tooling and frameworks that make observability easy to adopt for engineers across NVIDIA
Studying real system behavior to uncover bottlenecks, scaling limits, failure modes, and long-term architecture risks
Running day-to-day operations including upgrades, performance tuning, break/fix, and rotations that keep the platform healthy
Leading incident response and root-cause investigations, then driving the follow-through to eliminate repeat failures
Guiding engineers through design reviews, operational best practices, and reliability-focused decision making
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
10+ years operating large-scale production systems in roles such as SRE, Production Engineer, or Platform Engineer and 5+ years designing, building, and running observability platforms at scale
Deep hands-on experience with open-source observability stacks, including Prometheus/Thanos/Mimir for metrics, Loki or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch for logs, and Tempo/Jaeger/OpenTelemetry for tracing and profiling
Strong programming ability in Python and Go, with Java experience considered a plus
Solid grounding in Linux internals, networking, storage systems, distributed systems, concurrency, and performance engineering
Experience architecting multi-region, multi-tenant telemetry pipelines with high availability and strong durability guarantees
Proven skill in optimizing PromQL, LogQL, trace queries, ingestion paths, indexing strategies, and retention policies
Strong understanding of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident response, and the operational processes that support reliable systems
Ability to analyze complex distributed systems, pinpoint failure modes, and drive data-informed debugging and root cause analysis
Clear communicator who can collaborate effectively across product, platform, infrastructure, and application engineering teams
Preferred
Designed or led the architecture of a global observability platform supporting thousands of services with strict reliability and performance requirements
Contributed meaningfully to OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or other major observability open-source projects
Built high-throughput ingestion pipelines and long-term storage systems, with a strong focus on cost efficiency, retention strategy, and query performance
Specialized in high-cardinality telemetry, multi-tenant isolation, and advanced retention or tiered storage models
Worked hands-on with Kafka, Spark, Flink, or large-scale collectors in ultra-high-scale production environments where observability is mission critical
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NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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