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Programmer Programmer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA (NOW HIRING)

AI Infra SRE Engineer

San Jose, CA ยท Remote

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Position: AI Infra SRE Engineer - DGX Location: Remote Duration: Fulltime Must-have * NVIDIA (DGX) or equivalent high-performance-compute (HPC) clusters (e.g. Cray, HPE, IBM) * Cisco UCS C885A

Senior DevOps Engineer

Palo Alto, CA ยท On-site

$150K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

About the Role The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for managing the running of the Production Environment 24x7x366, handling PCI including PCI Audits and SOC Audits, PCI Data, executing tasks ...

AI-First SRE/DevOps Engineer

San Jose, CA ยท On-site +1

$66.75 - $88.75/hr

US (Remote or HQ Hybrid) Job Type: Full-time Axiad is seeking a skilled AI-First SRE/DevOps Engineer with 5-8 years of hands-on infrastructure and platform engineering experience to help build and ...

US (Remote or HQ Hybrid) Job Type: Full-time Axiad is seeking a skilled AI-First SRE/DevOps Engineer with 5-8 years of hands-on infrastructure and platform engineering experience to help build and ...

AI-First SRE/DevOps Engineer

San Jose, CA ยท On-site

$66.75 - $88.75/hr

US (Remote or HQ Hybrid) Job Type: Full-time Axiad is seeking a skilled AI-First SRE/DevOps Engineer with 5-8 years of hands-on infrastructure and platform engineering experience to help build and ...

Senior DevOps Engineer

Palo Alto, CA ยท On-site

$152K - $196K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

You'll partner closely with engineering teams to make services production-ready, own observability and incident response, and drive the practices that keep our platform stable as we scale. As a key ...

Sr. Software Engineer - SOC

San Jose, CA ยท On-site

$143K - $189K/yr

Job Title: Sr. Software Engineer - SOC (318578) Job Location: San Jose, CA (100% remote for now but need to be onsite as soon as campus opens) Duration: 6+ months contract Client: Samsung Description:

You will help drive our engineering transformation as we evolve from legacy technology to a living, API-driven insights platform - one that gives developers, managers, and executives meaningful ...

DevOps Engineer Associate

Palo Alto, CA ยท On-site

$110K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for managing the running of the Production Environment 24x7x366, handling PCI including PCI Audits and SOC Audits, PCI Data, executing tasks involving PCI Data ...

You will help drive our engineering transformation as we evolve from legacy technology to a living, API-driven insights platform - one that gives developers, managers, and executives meaningful ...

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As of Aug 15, 2026, the average hourly pay for programmer programmer in Santa Cruz, CA is $45.65, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $29.71 and $59.38 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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AI Infra SRE Engineer

Nastech Global

San Jose, CA โ€ข Remote

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Full-time

Re-posted 11 days ago


Job description

Position: AI Infra SRE Engineer – DGX

Location: Remote

Duration: Fulltime

Must-have

  • NVIDIA (DGX) or equivalent high-performance-compute (HPC) clusters (e.g. Cray, HPE, IBM)
  • Cisco UCS C885A
  • Docker

Good to have

  • DevOps Automation
  • CI/CD systems (e.g., GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
  • Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins
  • Python
  • GoLang, C/C++
  • Enterprise Grade Kubernetes cluster (RedHat OpenShift – preferred) and/or Google Anthos
  • Software development lifecycle includes design, development, testing, packaging, and deployment using Golang

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Technical knowledge of high-performance compute, NVIDIA DGX/GPUs and/or Cisco Unified Compute System.
  • Handle availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of NVIDIA and Cisco UCS infrastructure
  • by instilling engineering reliability into the development life cycle with a focus on fault tolerant approaches.
  • Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation, and other non-functional systems requirements.
  • Automate operational capabilities using Python, Ansible, Terraform, Go etc.
  • Deliver automation through CI/CD pipeline and chatbot etc.
  • Implement metrics driven processes to ensure service quality targets are met.