# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Yokneam, Israel
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Staff DB SRE to build the runtime foundation for NVIDIA's enterprise AI platforms, focusing on database infrastructure at scale. You will develop software systems, automation frameworks, and high-performance database services that power NVIDIA's AI workloads.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design and operate highly available database clusters with automated replication, failover, and disaster-recovery strategies.

- Drive database performance engineering, including query optimization, indexing strategies, and storage-engine tuning.

- Build self-service database lifecycle automation, including one-click cluster provisioning and zero-downtime upgrades.

- Bridge relational and AI-native data infrastructure, extending traditional database expertise into vector search and GPU-accelerated query engines.

- Compose and build software platforms that transform legacy database systems into modern and scalable architectures.

- Run vector and graph database services and query engines to handle AI/ML data workloads with ultra-low latency.

- Build automation frameworks for provisioning, schema evolution, scaling, and failover integrated directly into CI/CD workflows.

- Build developer-focused tooling for monitoring, profiling, and debugging database performance in real time.

- Contribute to architecture, coding standards, and guidelines for long-term platform evolution.

- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure flawless operation of critical database services.

**Requirements:**

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field,or equivalent experience.

- 8+ years of Database engineering experience with deep expertise in database systems or distributed data platforms.

- Deep hands-on expertise with one or more major relational database engines, including replication topologies and high-availability architecture.

- Proven background in query optimization, data partitioning, and large-scale performance tuning.

- Experience building or operating managed database services or internal Database-as-a-Service platforms.

- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, with a track record of building production-grade systems.

- Demonstrable experience crafting high-performance, high-availability relational database services.

- Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and cloud-native database deployment patterns.

- Hands-on experience establishing DevOps guidelines, e.g., CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, SLAs, capacity forecasting.

**Nice to Have:**

- Strong Kubernetes/Infrastructure as code and coding experience.

- Expertise in hybrid/multi-region database replication strategies for low-latency AI workloads.

- Demonstrable understanding of observability and performance profiling tools for complex data systems.

- Experience building an internal Database-as-a-Service offering.

- Hands-on experience with database migration tooling, schema evolution pipelines, and zero-downtime upgrade strategies.

## Skills

### Required
- Database engineering
- Distributed data platforms
- Relational database engines
- Query optimization
- Performance tuning
- Python
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Cloud-native database deployment

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes/Infrastructure as code
- Hybrid/multi-region database replication
- Observability and performance profiling
- Database migration tooling
- Schema evolution pipelines
- Zero-downtime upgrade strategies

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