Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$168,000 - $333,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer specializing in HPC storage at NVIDIA, you will design, implement, and optimize on-prem High-Performance Computing (HPC) storage solutions, leveraging cloud computing. You will also develop automation tools for deployment and management of large-scale infrastructure environments.
What you'll do
- Design, implement an on-prem HPC infrastructure supplemented with cloud computing. - Design and implement scalable and efficient Storage solutions tailored for data-intensive applications. - Develop tooling to automate deployment and management of large-scale infrastructure environments. - Document general procedures and practices, and perform technology evaluations related to distributed file systems. - Collaborate across teams to understand developers' workflows and gather their infrastructure requirements. - Influence and guide methodologies for building, testing, and deploying applications.
What you'll need
- BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience, MS with 5+ years of experience or Ph.D. with 3 years of experience. - 8+ years of experience crafting technology solutions and resolving performance bottlenecks for HPC applications. - Design, deployment and management of Enterprise NAS solutions like NetApp, Pure Storage and S3 based storage such as Cloudian MinIO. - Experience with one or more parallel or distributed filesystems such as Lustre, GPFS. - Python/Bash/Golang programming/scripting experience. - Strong Experience operating services in any of the leading Cloud environment [ AWS, Azure or GCP]. - Experience with multiple monitoring stacks such as Prometheus+Grafana, Elasticsearch+Kibana, Splunk, Zabbix.
Skills: HPC storage, distributed storage, automation tools, Lustre, GPFS, Cloudian MinIO
This role has been open 43 days — below the 48-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Storage Systems
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Open roles in category
32
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$248k
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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 (32 roles · 12 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 21 | 32 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 993 | 6140 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 48 d | 48 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $248k |
Skills observed across this category: HPC storage, distributed storage, automation tools, Lustre, GPFS, Cloudian MinIO
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 21 open roles · median 48 d
- Broadcom · 1 open role · median 147 d
- Graphcore · 1 open role · median 7 d
- KIOXIA America · 1 open role · median 1 d
- KLA Corporation · 1 open role · median 180 d
- Marvell Technology · 1 open role · median 11 d
How we counted: 32 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Storage Systems) roles from 12 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.