Senior Cluster Engineer - High-performance Computing
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The organization
Our client operates one of the largest GPU infrastructures in the world — 30,000+ GPUs and 10InfiniBand fabrics across five global data centers. Our infrastructure doubles in size everyyear. We’re looking for engineers who love getting deep into Linux systems, pushinghardware and software to their limits, and making the world’s fastest AI and HPC workloadsrun even faster
The role
You’ll join a small, senior team that works between the hardware and Linux OS layers, solving performance problems that affect tens of thousands of GPUs. This is hands-on, high-impact engineering where microsecond gains matter and every optimization is felt at globalscale.
What you’ll do
Profile and optimize Linux kernel subsystems (CPU scheduling, memorymanagement, networking stack) for GPU clusters and InfiniBand fabrics
Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance bottlenecks
Integrate and validate new GPU hardware (KVM/QEMU, PCIe devices, Kubernetes)
Improve monitoring, alerting, and automation for large-scale, distributed systems
Occasionally assist customers in optimizing workloads
Your profile
We’d love to hear from you if you have
Solid Linux internals knowledge, ideally with kernel tuning or profiling experience(perf, ftrace, eBPF, sysprof, etc.)
Experience reading/debugging C or C++ system-level code
Scripting or development skills in Go, Python, or similar
A background in low-level, complex environments such as HPC, large-scale clusters,or high-performance networking
Bonus points for:
GPU or HPC cluster experience
InfiniBand or other high-performance interconnect knowledge
Virtualization stacks (KVM/QEMU), Slurm, Kubernetes
This is for you if you
Love solving deep technical challenges, care about performance downto the microsecond, and want to work on infrastructure that pushes the limits of what’s possible.
What's offered
Salary: up to 160k + 25% bonus (200k OTE).
Flexible working arrangements.
A dynamic and collaborative work environment that values initiative and innovation.
Location: Amsterdam or remote.
- Business unit
- The Next Chapter W&S
- Locations
- Europe, Amsterdam
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Is work permit / visa sponsorship offered?
- Yes, but only for candidates already based in Europe.
- Is remote possible?
- This role is open for both on-site in The Netherlands as well as full-remote
- Is freelance possible?
- No, this is a permanent job with a regular contract of employment.
- Which language skills are required (professional level)?
- English
- Employment type
- Full-time, Regular - indefinite, Regular - temporary
About The Next Chapter W&S
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