Senior Manager, Developer Infrastructure and Build Engineering

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

1d•$272,000 - $431,250

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead the evolution of its DevOps, Build Engineering, and Infrastructure team. The role leads a high-performing engineering team responsible for building, testing, verifying, and releasing core software that enables NVIDIA employees to deliver the CUDA driver, runtime, and related language-specific libraries in C++, Python, and Rust, including CCCL (Thrust, CUB, libcudacxx), cuda-python, numba-cuda, and cuda-rust. This hands-on leadership position combines people development, CI/CD, technical strategy, architecture, and end-to-end operational ownership. The manager will establish the engineering vision, architecture, roadmap, and measures of success for a cohesive developer experience and a platform serving a global workforce. The role also entails team execution and delivery management, technical leadership across version-control and CI/CD systems, and responsibility for product and service operations. Security, privacy, accessibility, compliance, and responsible AI principles are expected to be incorporated into product design and development.

Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, another engineering field, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
12+ years of overall software engineering experience.
6+ years leading and managing high-performing engineering teams, with a record of hiring, retaining, mentoring, and growing engineers, including senior and principal-level technical leaders.
Demonstrated success delivering build systems, CI/CD platforms, and innovative developer experiences in challenging situations.
Experience defining technical strategy and leading architecture and delivery of distributed, full-stack software systems.
Deep understanding of build systems, C++, CUDA, and how complex software projects are developed, built, tested, and packaged, including extensive experience with CMake, Bazel, or similar.
Experience working across multiple highly coupled projects in Git or another version-control system, with complex interdependencies and automated verification to enable ongoing release readiness.
Experience operating business-critical services with high standards for reliability, security, privacy, accessibility, and compliance.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align engineers, partners, and executives around a clear direction.

Nice To Haves

Led delivery of production CI/CD platforms, such as GitLab, GitHub, or other systems, including testing using GPUs, ASICs, or similar, for large development teams working in a compiled language.
Experience building advanced CI/CD systems that are highly inhomogeneous, resource-constrained, and have large, business-critical test matrix requirements.
Extensive experience with C/C++ software release processes, packaging, verification, and customer delivery under time-critical constraints with multiple partners.
Hands-on C/C++ programming and debugging skills in Linux and ideally other platforms or operating systems.
Successfully scaled engineering teams through rapid growth or significant technical and organizational change, or contributed to open-source C++/CUDA projects, AI, or developer-platform technologies.
Experience managing large-scale monorepos and designing efficient CI/CD pipelines for them.

Responsibilities

Lead, hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing team building employee-facing software development, CI/CD, and agentic AI experiences.
Define engineering vision, architecture, a multi-quarter roadmap, and success measures for a cohesive developer experience and platform serving a global workforce.
Plan and manage team execution, including project prioritization, workload balancing, achievement tracking, dependency management, and predictable delivery.
Provide hands-on technical leadership across Perforce, Git, GitHub, GitLab, and multiple CI/CD platforms, and deliver a new platform to accelerate software development and delivery.
Raise engineering standards for architecture, testing, documentation, CI/CD, maintainability, and developer productivity, while guiding teams through complex technical tradeoffs.
Own operational health of the team’s products and services, including reliability, performance, incident response, observability, capacity planning, and cost efficiency.
Ensure security, privacy, accessibility, and responsible AI principles are incorporated throughout product design and development.