Senior SRE Engineer
NVIDIA Corporation · Santa Clara, CA
$148,000–$276,000from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on owning and scaling a company-wide CI-as-a-Service platform built on GitLab CI and GitHub Actions, used daily by thousands of engineers across hardware and software teams. Day-to-day work spans Kubernetes cluster management, reliability and capacity engineering, self-service pipeline tooling, and developer experience improvements such as caching, test sharding, and observability. It suits experienced SRE or platform engineers with deep Kubernetes and CI/CD expertise at scale.
Senior level · 5+ years · Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 610 people in the Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 320–960
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role spans two salary bands: Level 3 ($148,000–$235,750) and Level 4 ($176,000–$276,000). The posted range reflects both levels combined; the actual offer will depend on which level the candidate is placed at.
SOC classification is Medium confidence. The role builds and ships a CI-as-a-Service platform (strongly 15-1252 Software Developers), but also carries significant Kubernetes cluster operations and SRE on-call duties that overlap with 15-1244. The primary day-to-day work — writing platform code, pipeline templates, self-service tooling, and IaC — tips it to 15-1252.
Python, Go, and bash are presented as interchangeable scripting options ('Python, Go, bash scripting or equivalent'); Python is listed first and used as the primary skill name with Go and bash as alternatives.
Argo CD and Flux are presented as interchangeable GitOps tools ('such as Argo CD and Flux'); Argo CD is the primary with Flux as an alternative.
Loki and ELK are presented as interchangeable log-aggregation options; Loki is primary with ELK as an alternative.
The BS/MS in CS requirement is paired with 'or equivalent experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD) appear under 'Ways to stand out from the crowd' (the preferred/nice-to-have section) and are explicitly marked 'preferred.'
Docker/containerization appears under the preferred 'Ways to stand out' section, not in the required qualifications block.
No specific work location is stated in the posting beyond NVIDIA's general context (Santa Clara, CA HQ); the CBSA reflects NVIDIA's primary campus. Remote status is unspecified in the JD and has been set to false as a conservative default.
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