Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Unix Systems

About the job

General Information

Job Title

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Unix

Job ID

19554

City

Sunnyvale

State/Province

California

Date Posted

30-Oct-2026

Job Category

Information Technology

Job Subcategory

Site Reliability

Hire Type

Employee

Remote Eligible

No

Base Salary Range: $186800 - $280100

Descriptions & Requirements

Job Description and Requirements

We Are

Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow

You Are

You are a hands on Unix/Linux engineer who enjoys understanding how systems work and solving infrastructure problems at their root.

You have strong experience administering and troubleshooting Unix/Linux systems in production environments and are comfortable investigating performance, availability, configuration, networking, and system-level issues. You don't need to know every technology the team supports today. What matters is that you have a strong Unix/Linux foundation, good troubleshooting instincts, and the curiosity and technical appetite to quickly learn new systems.

You enjoy working close to the technology, investigating difficult problems, automating repetitive work, and improving the environment rather than simply maintaining it.

At Synopsys, you will apply those skills to large scale infrastructure supporting engineering teams globally. You will also have the opportunity to deepen your experience with HPC and grid computing environments, including workload management technologies such as IBM Spectrum LSF, Slurm, PBS Pro, and Grid Engine

What You'll Be Doing

• Administer and troubleshoot large scale Unix/Linux environments supporting business critical engineering workloads across global development teams
• Investigate production issues affecting system performance, availability, resource utilization, and engineering users
• Support HPC and grid computing infrastructure and develop your expertise with workload schedulers such as IBM Spectrum LSF, Slurm, PBS Pro, and Grid Engine
• Support infrastructure and development platforms including GitHub, GitLab, Perforce, and Artifactory
• Build automation, scripts, tools, and operational documentation that reduce repetitive work and improve reliability
• Monitor infrastructure health and performance and identify potential issues before they affect engineering productivity
• Participate in production support and an on call rotation supporting globally distributed systems, including occasional evening, weekend, or early morning coverage
• Contribute to root cause analysis and implement corrective actions that reduce recurring infrastructure problems
• Work closely with experienced team members while progressively taking ownership of increasingly complex infrastructure

The Impact You Will Have

• Help keep critical engineering infrastructure reliable and performant for thousands of engineers globally
• Reduce engineering disruption by identifying and resolving Unix/Linux infrastructure issues quickly
• Improve system reliability through automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and preventative improvements
• Develop expertise in HPC, grid computing, and workload scheduling technologies supporting compute intensive engineering workloads
• Improve engineering productivity by supporting reliable infrastructure and development services
• Help eliminate repetitive operational work through sustainable automation and process improvements
• Contribute ideas and improvements as you build deeper knowledge of the Synopsys engineering environment

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of hands on Unix/Linux system administration and troubleshooting experience in production environments
• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems, including system administration, performance troubleshooting, system configuration, and production support
• Experience troubleshooting infrastructure issues across compute, storage, networking, processes, filesystems, system performance, and resource utilization
• Experience supporting production or business critical infrastructure where system availability and performance matter
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Shell, Python, Perl, or similar technologies
• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to methodically investigate unfamiliar technical issues
• Ability and motivation to quickly learn new infrastructure technologies and become productive in a complex engineering environment
• Good communication skills and the ability to collaborate with infrastructure teams, software engineers, and technical users
• Experience with HPC, grid computing, cluster computing, or engineering compute environments would be beneficial
• Exposure to workload management technologies such as IBM Spectrum LSF, Platform LSF, Slurm, PBS Pro, Grid Engine, or similar schedulers would be beneficial
• Experience with GitHub, GitLab, Perforce, Artifactory, infrastructure monitoring, configuration management, or related DevOps practices would be beneficial

Who You Are

• You can walk into a situation where a grid scheduler is behaving unpredictably, ask the right diagnostic questions, trace through system logs and job traces, and identify whether the problem is configuration drift, a kernel bug, network saturation, or a workload pattern that nobody anticipated
• You take ownership of hard problems and drive them through resolution even when the path is not obvious, pulling in the right people and keeping stakeholders informed without needing someone to manage your progress
• You write clear incident summaries and postmortems that help the team learn what actually happened and prevent the same failure from happening again, not just check a box
• You can explain a complex infrastructure tradeoff to a software engineer in two sentences without losing the nuance, and you know when to dig deeper versus when to escalate
• You are comfortable working across time zones with globally distributed teams, providing clear communication during incidents and complex troubleshooting activities that span multiple regions
• You recognize when a recurring operational problem needs a sustainable solution rather than another manual workaround, and you follow through on building that solution

The Team You'll Be Part Of

You will join the team responsible for critical engineering infrastructure used by software engineering teams globally. The team supports infrastructure for a large global engineering community, including grid and high performance computing environments, workload scheduling platforms, and source code and development systems. You will collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams across the US, Europe, India, and other global locations. This is a hybrid role based in the Bay Area with flexibility to work from our Sunnyvale office and remotely.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.

#LI-Hybrid

At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.

In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request. The base salary range for this role is across the U.S.