Principal Site Reliability Engineer – Observability, Telemetry Platform

NVIDIA

Principal Site Reliability Engineer at NVIDIA focusing on observability and telemetry platforms. Responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting operational reliability of large scale systems.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeSanta Clara • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $248,000 - $396,750 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoLinuxPerlPythonRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, implement and support operational and reliability aspects of large scale Observability & Telemetry collection platform with a focus on performance at scale, real time monitoring, logging and alerting
Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design through deployment, operation and refinement
Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software tools, platforms and frameworks, capacity management and launch reviews
Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Be part of an on call rotation to support production systems

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent experience
15+ years of experience with Infrastructure automation, distributed systems design, experience with design, develop tools for running large scale private or public cloud system in Production
8+ years experience delivering foundational infrastructure and observability platforms.
Experience in one or more of the following: Python, Go, Perl or Ruby
In depth knowledge on Linux, Networking and Containers

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonGoPerlRubyInfrastructure automationDistributed systems designObservability platformsLinuxNetworkingContainers

Soft Skills

system design consultingincident responseblameless postmortemsperformance at scalereal time monitoringloggingalertingcapacity managementservice lifecycle managementautomation

Certifications

BS degree in Computer Sciencerelated technical field