Senior Data Engineer – Operational Excellence, EDA Infrastructure

NVIDIA

. Serve as incident commander for high-severity incidents, coordinating responders across teams through mitigation and recovery .

Posted 11/12/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $152,000 - $287,500 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates strong data engineering capabilities with expertise in SQL and Python, alongside proven incident management experience. Effectively analyzes incident trends and communicates findings to leadership while maintaining operational excellence in high-pressure environments.

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Data Engineering SkillsIncident Management ExperienceSQL ProficiencyPython ProficiencyIncident Commander Experience

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Hard Skills

Data Pipeline DevelopmentIncident Trend AnalysisStatistical Methods ApplicationMachine Learning Methods ApplicationOperational Reporting

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCalm Under PressureFacilitation of Blameless Postmortems

Tools & Technologies

PagerDutyRootlyServiceNowTableauGrafanaDatabricksAI ToolsLLMsPrompt Engineering

Industry Keywords

Operational ExcellenceIncident CommanderGlobally Distributed EnvironmentsSLOsRunbooks

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaPythonServiceNowSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as incident commander for high-severity incidents, coordinating responders across teams through mitigation and recovery
Build and maintain data pipelines collecting incident, alert, and change data into a clean, queryable source for reliability reporting
Run incident trend analysis to identify recurring failure patterns, regressions in TTD, TTM, and TTR, and services contributing most to customer impact
Turn trend findings into prioritized recommendations for engineering leadership and track corrective actions to completion
Strengthen operational excellence practices, including runbooks and on-call readiness
Run postmortem reviews and operational health forums, bringing incident data and driving clear ownership and follow-up

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in data engineering, incident management, or a closely related engineering role
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Strong data engineering skills in SQL and Python
Experience building and maintaining pipelines that feed operational reporting
Proven ability to analyze incident trends and present findings used by leadership to prioritize reliability work
Hands-on experience with incident management platforms such as PagerDuty, Rootly, or ServiceNow
Experience with dashboarding tools such as Tableau, Grafana, or Databricks
Experience facilitating blameless postmortems or operational reviews and holding teams accountable for follow-up actions
Clear, calm communication during high-pressure incidents
Hands-on experience with AI tools for analysis, debugging, and documentation
Experience applying statistical or ML methods to operational data
Experience serving formally as an incident commander
Background building or contributing to internal reliability platforms
Experience operating in globally distributed, 24/7 environments with strict SLOs
Track record of running incident simulations or game days
Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or GPU-based services
Experience using LLMs and prompt engineering

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