Technical Lead - GPU Infrastructure

Join Tether and Shape the Future of Digital Finance

At Tether, we're not just building products, we're pioneering a global financial revolution. Our cutting-edge solutions empower businesses-from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs-to seamlessly integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains. By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, Tether enables you to store, send, and receive digital tokens instantly, securely, and globally, all at a fraction of the cost. Transparency is the bedrock of everything we do, ensuring trust in every transaction.

Innovate with Tether

Tether Finance:Our innovative product suite features the world's most trusted stablecoin,USDT, relied upon by hundreds of millions worldwide, alongside pioneering digital asset tokenization services.

But that's just the beginning

Tether Power:Driving sustainable growth, our energy solutions optimize excess power for Bitcoin mining using eco-friendly practices in state-of-the-art, geo-diverse facilities.

Tether Data:Fueling breakthroughs in AI and peer-to-peer technology, we reduce infrastructure costs and enhance global communications with cutting-edge solutions likeKEET, our flagship app that redefines secure and private data sharing.

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Education

Democratizing access to top-tier digital learning, we empower individuals to thrive in the digital and gig economies, driving global growth and opportunity.

Tether Evolution: At the intersection of technology and human potential, we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible, crafting a future where innovation and human capabilities merge in powerful, unprecedented ways.

Why Join Us?

Our team is a global talent powerhouse, working remotely from every corner of the world. If you're passionate about making a mark in the fintech space, this is your opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds, pushing boundaries and setting new standards. We've grown fast, stayed lean, and secured our place as a leader in the industry.

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Must have

• Experience.Eight or more years of hands-on engineering, including at least three 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.
• Slurm at scale, hands on.Has run slurmctld and slurmdbd for real users: partitions, QoS and priority, accounting, prolog and epilog, node health scripting, upgrades with jobs on the system. Ideally has operated an HPC or GPU training cluster for a research population.
• GPU fleet operation on bare metal.NVIDIA driver and CUDA lifecycle, Fabric Manager and NVSwitch behaviour on SXM systems, DCGM-based health and utilisation, MIG, node burn-in and acceptance.
• High-performance interconnects.InfiniBand fabric and subnet configuration, RDMA, SR-IOV, and diagnosing multi-node NCCL performance problems.
• Linux systems depth. Kernel modules and drivers, PCIe passthrough and vfio-pci, cgroups and namespaces, performance tuning for compute-heavy workloads.
• Production Kubernetes operation, not just deployment:control plane, upgrades, CNI and CSI, operators and custom controllers, multi-tenancy design.
• HPC storage and data movement.Shared filesystems (VAST, Lustre, NFS), node-local NVMe caching, distributing large model weights and datasets across many nodes.
• Observability and operations.Prometheus, Grafana and Loki or equivalents, SLOs, incident response and post-incident review.
• Working fluency in JavaScript andNode.jssufficient to review a control plane, CLI and worker services with authority and to make architecture decisions on them. Not a feature-development requirement.
• A shipped platform with real users.A multi-tenant IaaS or PaaS, or a research computing service: resource isolation, quotas, usage metering, and user-facing API and CLI surfaces.
• Leadership that stays in the code.People management across time zones, cross-track review, written architecture decisions with alternatives recorded, and the ability to…