Technical Lead – GPU Infrastructure

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🇮🇹 Italy – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Tether.to

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

Crypto • Fintech • Finance

Tether. to is a leading digital asset company that pioneers the use of stablecoins in the blockchain space. As the most widely adopted stablecoin, Tether tokens are designed to be pegged 1-to-1 with fiat currencies, offering a stable digital asset option for users. The platform facilitates these token transactions across multiple blockchains, enhancing cross-border transactions while maintaining transparency with daily records of total assets and reserves. Tether's initiatives include educational programs promoting digital asset usage, especially targeting regions like the Middle East, Turkey, and the Philippines. Tether thus positions itself as a disruptor in the traditional financial system by enabling a stable, efficient method of handling transactions in the digital currency world.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end platform architecture through architecture proposals, high-level and low-level designs, reviews, and maintenance of the baseline • Lead and line-manage a distributed team of approximately twelve engineers across backend, frontend, DevOps, QA, and documentation • Set engineering standards, conduct code and design reviews, manage release gates, hold one-to-ones, and provide growth and performance input • Design, build, and operate a managed Slurm service for research users • Own Slurm controllers, accounting, partitions, login nodes, node onboarding, driver and CUDA baselines, stalled-job and node-health detection, draining, autohealing, storage visibility, identity, and isolation • Own Kubernetes cluster bootstrap and lifecycle on partner-provided bare metal • Manage NVIDIA GPU Operator and Network Operator, VM-based GPU isolation with KubeVirt and VFIO, upgrades, backup and recovery, and node replacement • Own managed inference architecture, including serving, multi-GPU and multi-node parallelism, autoscaling, request routing, endpoint reliability, and confidential-compute-capable capacity • Establish metrics, logging, alerting, and SLOs across the control plane, GPU fleet, and application tiers • Lead incident response, post-incident reviews, and design a sustainable on-call model • Serve as primary technical interface to infrastructure partners and vendors • Translate requirements into written specifications and acceptance tests, manage escalations, and advise on capacity planning and hardware sourcing • Work with research, model-training, and product teams to translate workloads into platform requirements and broker capacity • Complete the platform team and set the technical bar for new engineers • Own architecture, implementation, and delivery plans within a fixed initial six-month delivery window

🎯 Requirements

• Eight or more years of hands-on engineering experience • At least three years leading teams that build and operate infrastructure platforms other teams depend on • Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent practical experience • Hands-on experience running Slurm at scale, including slurmctld, slurmdbd, partitions, QoS, priority, accounting, prolog and epilog, node health scripting, and upgrades with jobs running • Experience operating an HPC or GPU training cluster for a research population ideally • Bare-metal NVIDIA GPU fleet operation, including driver and CUDA lifecycle, Fabric Manager, NVSwitch, DCGM, MIG, node burn-in, and acceptance • Experience with InfiniBand, subnet configuration, RDMA, SR-IOV, and diagnosing multi-node NCCL performance problems • Strong Linux systems knowledge, including kernel modules, drivers, PCIe passthrough, vfio-pci, cgroups, namespaces, and performance tuning • Production Kubernetes operations, including control plane, upgrades, CNI, CSI, operators, custom controllers, and multi-tenancy • HPC storage and data movement experience with VAST, Lustre, NFS, node-local NVMe caching, and distributing large model weights and datasets • Observability and operations experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or equivalents, SLOs, incident response, and post-incident review • Working fluency in JavaScript and Node.js sufficient to review control-plane, CLI, and worker services and make architecture decisions • Experience delivering a multi-tenant IaaS, PaaS, or research computing service with isolation, quotas, usage metering, and user-facing API and CLI surfaces • People management across time zones, cross-track review, written architecture decisions, and ability to challenge partners or executives with reasons • Excellent written and spoken English • Must be based between UTC and UTC+5:30 • Desirable: Slurm operators on Kubernetes or Kubernetes-native schedulers • Desirable: modern serving stacks such as vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM • Desirable: VM and container isolation, confidential computing, Cluster API, kubeadm, Cilium, autohealing, infrastructure as code, GitOps, GPU cloud/HPC/AI lab experience, distributed systems, and hardware-provider partnership experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Occasional travel to partner sites and team events