Network Site Reliability Engineer
Focus on network automation and observability using Python, Go, Salt, Ansible, and Prometheus across campus and data center networks.
Originally posted 3 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role leads technical site reliability engineering for network infrastructure across campus and data center environments, focusing on network automation, observability, and operations excellence.
What you'll do
- Own the operational aspect of network infrastructure to ensure high availability and reliability.
- Partner with architecture and deployment teams to ensure new implementations are supportable and align with production standards.
- Implement network automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency.
- Monitor network performance, identify areas for improvement, and coordinate enhancements across teams.
- Conduct blameless postmortems, follow through on RCAs, and proactively mitigate network risks.
- Collaborate with SMEs to resolve production network issues and meet Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
What you'll need
- BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of industry experience in network site reliability engineering, network automation, or network operations across campus and data center networks.
- In-depth experience in Python or Go.
- Expertise in automating networks using frameworks such as Salt, Ansible, or similar.
- Knowledge in network technologies including TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, Wireless, BGP, VPN, L2 switching, Firewalls, Load Balancers, EVPN, VxLAN, and Segment Routing.
- Familiarity with network management tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Nautobot/Netbox, and BigPanda.
- Experience with ServiceNow, Jira, and Linux system fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Track record of leveraging operational signals through SNMP, Syslog, or Streaming Telemetry to address operational challenges.
- Experience debugging and optimizing code to automate routine tasks.
- Hands-on experience with Mellanox/Cumulus Linux, Palo Alto firewalls, Netscalers, and F5 load balancers.
- Previous SRE experience.
Skills: SRE, network automation, Python, BGP, Prometheus
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 55-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Networking Software
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Open roles in category
53
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Median days open
55 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$259k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (53 roles · 12 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 36 | 53 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1178 | 6437 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 49 d | 55 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $259k |
Skills observed across this category: SRE, network automation, Python, BGP, Prometheus
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 33 open roles · median 56 d
- Arm Holdings · 3 open roles · median 187 d
- Eridu AI · 3 open roles · median 153 d
- AMD · 2 open roles · median 35 d
- Broadcom · 2 open roles · median 32 d
- Keysight Technologies · 2 open roles · median 3 d
How we counted: 53 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Networking Software) roles from 12 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 4 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.