Senior Release Infrastructure Architect

Details

NVIDIA is powering the future of AI and computing. As a Principal Architect on the release infrastructure team in Santa Clara, you will manage the architecture of a critical release management platform and define the technical vision for modern infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Manage the architecture of a full-stack release management platform supporting multi-tenant, multi-environment systems across multiple hardware platforms.
• Create hierarchical domain models and state machines for complex lifecycles and multi-axis promotion flows.
• Architect ingestion and reconciliation pipelines that ensure data fidelity and compliance across multiple representations.
• Define and integrate validation, promotion, and gating models with automated sanity stages and customer-release pipelines.
• Separate authoring and production environments to ensure data integrity and sanitization.
• Establish standards for API development, authentication, RBAC, audit logging, and observability.
• Lead frontend architecture for authoring and review experiences, including complex tabular editing and bulk operations.
• Drive platform onboarding workflows, including naming schemes, validation rules, and notification topologies for new hardware platforms.
• Mentor engineers, conduct architecture reviews, and raise the technical bar across multiple engineering domains.
• Partner with product, TPM, release managers, and other collaborators on roadmaps, capacity, and operational ownership.
• Define and manage deployment, rollout, and incident-response models, including database migration strategies and on-call runbooks.
• Continuously evaluate and incorporate emerging tools, frameworks, and patterns to improve platform capabilities.

Requirements

• BS, MS, PhD, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
• More than 12 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in a senior technical leadership role.
• Experience leading large-scale, multi-year, full-stack platform projects from inception through production.
• Expertise in Python or a modern backend stack, with production-grade PostgreSQL experience and complex relational data modeling.
• Strong frontend architecture skills with React, Angular, and TypeScript, with experience building data-heavy user interfaces.
• Experience creating and implementing state machines, workflow engines, or lifecycle systems.
• Background in CI/CD orchestration, event-triggered integrations, and background-job systems.
• Strong API development skills, including REST contracts, versioning, and automation-friendly interfaces.
• Proficiency in Linux, containerization, and managing stateful production services.
• Ability to lead through influence, drive architectural decisions across teams, and build consensus.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate complex business requirements into detailed technical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting large-scale release engineering or configuration management platforms.
• Background in event-driven architectures, microservices, or workflow orchestration engines.
• Familiarity with regulated environments, audit trails, and customer-facing sanitized exports.
• Knowledge of hardware or firmware release flows and board/SKU management.
• Experience integrating AI-assisted authoring, structured data extraction, or natural-language interfaces into engineering tools.

Compensation and Benefits

• Expected base salary: $224,000–$356,500 USD per year, determined by location, experience, and other objective job-related factors.
• Eligible for equity and benefits.
• Applications will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.
• NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to an inclusive work environment.