Principal Release Infrastructure Architect

NVIDIA

Principal Architect managing the architecture of a critical release management platform at NVIDIA. Leading innovative projects and collaborating with talented professionals in AI and computing.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $272,000 - $431,250 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularLinuxPostgresPythonReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

managing the architecture of a full-stack release management platform, advancing it to accommodate multi-tenant, multi-environment systems across multiple hardware platforms
crafting hierarchical domain models and state machines that manage complex lifecycles and multi-axis promotion flows
architecting robust ingestion and reconciliation pipelines, ensuring data fidelity and compliance across various representations
defining and integrating a comprehensive validation, promotion, and gating model with our automated sanity stages and customer-release pipelines
establishing a strict separation between authoring and production environments, ensuring data integrity and sanitization
setting standards for API build, authentication, RBAC, audit logging, and observability across the platform
leading frontend architecture for a sophisticated authoring and review experience, handling complex tabular editing and bulk operations
driving platform onboarding workflows, defining consistent naming schemes, validation rules, and notification topologies for new hardware platforms
mentoring engineers, conducting architecture reviews, and raising the technical bar across multiple engineering domains
partnering with product, TPM, release managers, and other collaborators to align on roadmaps, capacity, and operational ownership
defining and managing deployment, rollout, and incident-response models, including database migration strategies and clear on-call runbooks and continuously evaluating and incorporating emerging tools, frameworks, and patterns to improve the platform's capabilities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS, MS, or PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field
over 15 years of hands-on software engineering experience
at least 5 of those years should be 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
strong frontend architecture skills with React, Angular, and TypeScript, passionate about data-heavy UIs
demonstrated success in crafting and implementing state machines, workflow engines, or lifecycle systems
solid background in CI/CD orchestration, event-triggered integrations, and background-job systems
strong API development field, with experience in REST contracts, versioning, and automation-friendly interfaces
proficiency in Linux, containerization, and managing stateful production services
ability to lead through influence, driving architectural decisions across multiple teams and building consensus
excellent communication skills, translating complex business requirements into detailed technical solutions.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonPostgreSQLReactAngularTypeScriptCI/CD orchestrationAPI developmentREST contractsLinuxcontainerization

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationinfluencecollaborationproblem-solvingtechnical reviewconsensus buildingorganizational skillscapacity planning

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science