Senior Manager, Developer Infrastructure and Build Engineering - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$272,000 - $431,250 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 October 2026 by the employer.
This role leads the evolution of DevOps, Build Engineering, and Infrastructure, building and guiding a team responsible for the CUDA driver, runtime, and related language-specific libraries.
About the role
This role leads the evolution of DevOps, Build Engineering, and Infrastructure, building and guiding a team responsible for the CUDA driver, runtime, and related language-specific libraries in C++, Python, and Rust such as CCCL (Thrust, CUB, libcudacxx), cuda-python, numba-cuda, and cuda-rust.
What you'll do
- Lead, hire, mentor, and grow an engineering team building employee-facing products for software development, CI/CD, and agentic AI experiences.
- Define the engineering vision, architecture, and roadmap for developer experience and the platform serving a global workforce.
- Plan and manage team execution, including project prioritization, workload balancing, and achievement tracking.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across Perforce, Git, GitHub, GitLab, and multiple CI/CD platforms.
- Raise the engineering bar for architecture, testing, documentation, CI/CD, maintainability, and developer productivity.
- Own the operational health of the team’s products and services, including reliability, performance, incident response, and capacity planning.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related fields (or equivalent experience).
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years leading and managing high-performing engineering teams.
- Demonstrated success delivering build systems, CI/CD platforms, and innovative developer experience.
- Experience defining technical strategy and leading the architecture and delivery of distributed, full-stack software systems.
- Deep understanding of build systems, C++, CUDA, and how complex software projects are developed, built, tested, and packaged, with extensive experience in CMake, Bazel, or similar tools.
- Experience working across multiple highly-coupled projects (in Git or another VCS) with complex interdependencies and automated verification.
- Experience operating business-critical services with high standards for reliability, security, privacy, accessibility, and compliance.
Skills: DevOps, Build Engineering, CI/CD, CUDA driver, CMake, Bazel
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
974
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (974 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 281 | 974 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 991 | 6157 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 51 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: DevOps, Build Engineering, CI/CD, CUDA driver, CMake, Bazel
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 281 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 55 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 91 d
- Intel Corporation · 41 open roles · median 10 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 81 d
How we counted: 974 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 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.