Senior Release Infrastructure Architect

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years.   It’s   a unique legacy of innovation   that’s   fueled by great technology—and amazing people.   Today,   we’re   tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing   what’s   never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN,   you’ll   be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world.   Join NVIDIA, where   we're   powering the future of AI and computing! As a Principal Architect on our powerful team in Santa Clara, CA, you will manage the architecture of our critical release management platform. This role offers a   ground breaking   chance to define the technical vision for our modern infrastructure while working with hardworking and versatile professionals in the industry.   What   you'll   be doing:   • 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 c ontinuously evaluating and incorporating emerging tools, frameworks, and patterns to improve the platform's capabilities.   What we need to see:   • BS, MS, or PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field is   required . Candidates must have over 12+ 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.   • P