Drimva

NVIDIA

Senior Manager, Developer Infrastructure and Build Engineering

$272K–$431K

US, CA, Santa Clara · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026

Experience
12+ overall years in software engineering, including 6+ years leading and managing engineering teams.
Education
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, other Engineering or related fields (or equivalent experience).

About the job

Leads the team and technical direction for developer infrastructure, build engineering, CI/CD, and developer-facing tools supporting NVIDIA software development and releases.

What you'll do

  • Hire, mentor, and lead engineers; set the team’s vision, architecture, roadmap, and delivery priorities.
  • Guide development of developer platforms and CI/CD systems across source-control and build environments.
  • Own operational health, reliability, security, privacy, accessibility, and cost efficiency of the team’s products and services.

What they ask for

  • BS, MS, or PhD in a listed related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years leading and managing engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated success delivering build systems, CI/CD platforms, and developer experience; experience defining strategy and leading distributed, full-stack systems.
  • Deep understanding of build systems, C++, CUDA, and complex software development, including extensive experience with CMake, Bazel, or similar.

Nice to have

  • Production CI/CD platform delivery at scale, including GPU or ASIC testing; C/C++ release, packaging, verification, and customer delivery experience.
  • Hands-on C/C++ debugging in Linux or other platforms; experience scaling teams, large-scale monorepos, or open-source C++/CUDA projects.

Pay

272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary)

Tools

Perforce, Git, GitHub, GitLab, C++, CUDA, CMake, Bazel

AI focus

Leads development of agentic AI experiences and ensures responsible AI principles are incorporated into product design and development.

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First seen Oct 16, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)