Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineering
NVIDIA Corporation · Santa Clara, CA
$176,000–$276,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure role focused on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes-based platforms, and release engineering systems that support AI/ML video analytics workloads running on data center GPUs. Day-to-day work spans pipeline development with Jenkins and GitHub/GitLab Actions, observability tooling with Prometheus and Grafana, and troubleshooting bare-metal and GPU-accelerated servers. Suits engineers with deep Kubernetes and Python automation experience.
Senior level · 6+ years · Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 740 people in the Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 550–960
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 (6)
The JD requires a BS or MS 'or equivalent experience' — no hard degree gate; the degree requirement is set to None accordingly.
Jenkins is listed as the primary CI/CD tool with GitHub/GitLab Actions and Runners as named alternatives; all three appear together in the requirements section, so they are captured as one requirement with alternatives.
Prometheus and Grafana are both listed in the requirements section as part of the observability stack; ELK is also named there but alongside 'or similar', so it is captured as an alternative to Prometheus rather than a separate hard gate.
The alternative occupation (15-1244 Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is noted because the role includes significant infrastructure operations work (BareMetal troubleshooting, Linux sysadmin, networking), but the dominant emphasis on building CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and platform tooling in code points clearly to 15-1252 Software Developers.
Location is not explicitly stated in the posting; NVIDIA's Metropolis team is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA — the CBSA reflects that best-guess. Compensation range is consistent with a California-based role.
Equity and benefits are mentioned in addition to the base salary range.
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