Senior Manager, Developer Infrastructure and Build Engineering

About the role

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for 30 years. It’s an outstanding legacy of innovation that’s motivated by great technology—and outstanding people. Today, we’re harnessing the boundless possibilities of AI to build the next era of computing 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, encouraging environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Be part of the team and explore how you can make a lasting impact on the world!

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead the evolution of our DevOps, Build Engineering and Infrastructure team. You will build and guide a high-performing engineering team responsible for building, testing, verifying and releasing core software that help NVIDIA employees deliver the core CUDA driver, runtime, and related language specific libraries in C++, Python and Rust such as CCCL (Thrust, CUB, libcudacxx), cuda-python, numba-cuda, and cuda-rust. This hands-on leadership role combines people development, CI/CD, technical strategy, architecture, and end-to-end operational ownership.

What you’ll be doing:

- Lead, hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers building employee-facing products software development, CI/CD, and agentic AI experiences.

- Define the engineering vision, architecture, multi-quarter roadmap, and success measures for a cohesive developer experience and the 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. Deliver a new platform that accelerates software development and delivery.

- Raise the engineering bar for architecture, testing, documentation, CI/CD, maintainability, and developer productivity while guiding teams through complex technical tradeoffs.

- Own the operational health of the team’s products and services, including reliability, performance, incident response, observability, capacity planning, and cost efficiency and ensure security, privacy, accessibility, and responsible AI principles are incorporated throughout product design and development.

What we need to see:

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, other Engineering or related fields (or equivalent experience).

- 12+ overall years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years leading and managing high-performing engineering teams, with a proven 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 experience in challenging situations.