Senior Slurm & HPC Systems Engineer (GPU/Kubernetes)

Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR); San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Bitdeer is seeking a Staff Slurm Cluster & HPC Scheduling Engineer to own Slurm as a first-class, productized scheduling layer across a GPU fleet. You will be the single technical owner of Slurm cluster architecture, multi-tenant scheduling policy, and cluster reliability, driving adoption of the Slinky operator stack to share GPU pools with Kubernetes workloads.

The role is hands-on, customer-facing during onboarding and escalations, and sets the engineering standards for the platform team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in HPC or cloud infra engineering.
• Deep hands-on Slurm expertise: slurm.conf, slurmdbd, slurmrestd, MUNGE/SACK, JWT authentication.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate production Slurm clusters on bare metal and VMs.
• Lead Slinky on Kubernetes implementation including NodeSet and Accounting resources.
• Enable elastic capacity between Slurm and Kubernetes for dynamic workloads.
• Maintain cluster health with monitoring, diagnostics, and reliability engineering.
• Provide customer onboarding, runbooks, and tenant-facing docs.

Skills

Slurm expertise

HPC / Cloud

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Terraform/Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

slurm-operator

slurm-bridge

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Bitdeer is seeking a Staff Slurm Cluster & HPC Scheduling Engineer to own Slurm as a first-class, productized scheduling layer across a GPU fleet. You will be the single technical owner of Slurm cluster architecture, multi-tenant scheduling policy, and cluster reliability, driving adoption of the Slinky operator stack to share GPU pools with Kubernetes workloads.

The role is hands-on, customer-facing during onboarding and escalations, and sets the engineering standards for the platform team.