Senior Developer Relations Manager — Security and AI Software

Senior Developer Relations Manager

We are seeking a highly technical and strategic Senior Developer Relations Manager to join our team, focusing on engaging developers within a key software account. In this pivotal role you will work directly with developers, SREs, and security and platform practitioners to drive integration of NVIDIA libraries, frameworks and models within Splunk, App Dynamics, Thousand Eyes, and AI Defense.

• Develop and maintain deep technical expertise in software products Splunk, App Dynamics, Thousand Eyes, and AI Defense.
• Serve as the trusted technical advisor, problem solver and champion for developers in observability, security operations and AI platforms.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to drive adoption of NVIDIA libraries within partner technologies.
• Accelerate critical workloads by demonstrating and integrating the NVIDIA software stack (APIs, SDKs, data integrations, apps and reference architectures) into partner products, platforms and pipelines.
• Guide partners and developers through onboarding and integration by providing technical resources such as sample code, guides and demo pipelines.
• Map and monitor the developer ecosystem to identify growth opportunities and collaborate with engineering, product management and marketing to inform roadmaps.
• Engage partner technical leaders to drive best‑practice integrations and resolve technical challenges, using regular syncs to track adoption and surface new workflows.
• Grow and activate developer communities around accelerated software, representing co‑engineered products at conferences, meetups and hackathons and delivering technical talks and hands‑on workshops.
• Drive API, SDK and integration adoption across Splunk and the broader software ecosystem, championing the developer experience end‑to‑end.
• Surface developer sentiment and ecosystem trends, translating them into actionable intelligence that informs product direction and platform strategy.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 12+ years of overall professional experience in the technology industry in software engineering, developer relations, technical partnerships, solutions architecture or product management, including 5+ years of direct hands‑on experience in observability, data analytics, monitoring or security software.
• Proven experience leading, partnering and scaling developer programs at major technology companies, with ISVs or within relevant verticals.
• Significant technical depth in observability, security and/or AI software, including logging and metrics pipelines, distributed tracing, SIEM/SOAR, cloud‑native architectures and/or AI security frameworks, and contributions to product integrations and software libraries.
• Experience leading technical collaborations with engineering and product teams, including architectural design, code reviews, technical mentorship and delivery of technical talks or workshops.
• Proven ability to structure and implement complex technical engagements, negotiate requirements, prioritize issues and collaborate with internal or external collaborators across sales, legal, product or marketing teams as needed.
• Skilled at distilling complex technical concepts for audiences from engineers to executives, with end‑to‑end experience in defining, integrating, building and jointly marketing solutions with strategic ISV partners.

• Hands‑on experience building or optimizing observability and security solutions (e.g., data ingestion pipelines, SPL queries and dashboards, detection content, distributed tracing instrumentation).
• Familiarity with the Splunk platform (SPL, data onboarding, app development) or other software products (App Dynamics, Thousand Eyes, Cisco AI Defense).
• Experience with AI/ML security, LLM application security or AI observability use cases.
• Successful history of building and scaling developer communities and delivering impactful technical enablement programs.
• Expertise in building frameworks to capture developer sentiment and market shifts, translating real‑time ecosystem dynamics into actionable intelligence for product strategy and rationalization.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we offer a base salary range of $224,000 USD – $356,500 USD, equity and benefits.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.