Senior Release Infrastructure Architect
$224,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 30 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Manage the architecture of a full-stack release management platform supporting multi-tenant, multi-environment systems across multiple hardware platforms in Santa Clara, CA.
What you'll do
- Manage the architecture of a full-stack release management platform, advancing it to accommodate multi-tenant, multi-environment systems across multiple hardware platforms.
- Craft hierarchical domain models and state machines that manage complex lifecycles and multi-axis promotion flows.
- Architect robust ingestion and reconciliation pipelines, ensuring data fidelity and compliance across various representations.
- Define and integrate a comprehensive validation, promotion, and gating model with automated sanity stages and customer-release pipelines.
- Establish standards for API build, authentication, RBAC, audit logging, and observability across the platform, maintaining strict separation between authoring and production environments.
- Lead frontend architecture for authoring and review interfaces handling complex tabular editing and bulk operations, while setting platform onboarding workflows for new hardware platforms.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience) with 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in a senior technical leadership role.
- Proven experience leading large-scale, multi-year, full-stack platform projects from inception to production.
- Expertise in Python or a modern backend stack, with production-grade experience in PostgreSQL and complex relational data modeling.
- Frontend architecture skills with React, Angular, and TypeScript for data-heavy UIs.
- Demonstrated success crafting and implementing state machines, workflow engines, or lifecycle systems.
- Background in CI/CD orchestration, event-triggered integrations, background-job systems, REST contracts, Linux, and containerization.
Skills: Release Infrastructure, CI/CD, Python, PostgreSQL, Full-Stack Architecture
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
989
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Median days open
50 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$229k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (989 roles · 90 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 302 | 989 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1117 | 6361 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 54 d | 50 d (+4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: Release Infrastructure, CI/CD, Python, PostgreSQL, Full-Stack Architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 285 open roles · median 51 d
- Qualcomm · 59 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD · 49 open roles · median 30 d
- Graphcore · 49 open roles · median 106 d
- Intel Corporation · 44 open roles · median 16 d
- Arm Holdings · 36 open roles · median 3 d
How we counted: 989 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 90 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 31 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.