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Senior Performance & Infrastructure Engineer - HPC

Dutch-based recruitment agency specializing in IT, High Tech, and Engineering roles, connecting English-speaking technical talent with opportunities in The Netherlands since 2021.

The Next Chapter W&S

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The organization

Our client operates one of the largest GPU infrastructures in the world — 100,000+ GPUs. Their infrastructure doubles in size every year. We’re looking for engineers who love getting deep into Linux systems, pushing hardware and software to their limits, and making the world’s fastest AI and HPC workloads run 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 global scale.

What you’ll do
  • Trace, profile, tune and optimize Linux kernel & subsystems (CPU scheduling, memory management, networking stack) for GPU clusters and InfiniBand fabrics

  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance bottlenecks

  • Integrate and validate new GPU hardware & infra (KVM/QEMU, PCIe devices, Kubernetes)

  • Improve monitoring, alerting, and automation for large-scale, distributed systems

  • Occasionally assist customers in optimizing workloads

Your profile

Key requirements (non-negotiable):

  • Solid Linux internals knowledge, with kernel tracing, profiling and tuning experience (eg. perf, ftrace, eBPF, sysctl, kgdb etc.)

  • Excellent programming skills, C or C++ system-level code, with a good grasp of data structures & algorithms

  • Experience in performance optimization (eg. high-load/high-throughput, low-latency, low-jitter, memory bypasses, zero-copy, lock-free, synchronization across large-scale clusters etc.)

  • Scripting or development skills in Go, Python, or similar

Nice-to-haves (not key):

  • Large-scale clusters (GPU or CPU)

  • Virtualization stacks (KVM/QEMU), Slurm, Kubernetes

  • Deep learning frameworks (eg. PyTortch, Tensorflow...)

  • GPU-specific stack (eg. CUDA, NCCL....)

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.

  • Flexible working arrangements.

  • A dynamic and collaborative work environment that values initiative and innovation.

  • Location: Amsterdam or full-remote from anywhere within the EU/EER

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About The Next Chapter W&S

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The Next Chapter is a Dutch-based recruitment agency specializing in IT, (High) Tech, Science, and start/scale-ups. Founded in 2021 by Niels Jordens and Roeland Pluijm, the company focuses on connecting English language technical talent with opportunities in The Netherlands. They offer flexible recruitment services including contingency-based hiring, retained search, and RaaS (Recruiter as a Service) where they act as dedicated in-house recruiters for clients.

The agency combines decades of international and technical recruitment experience to fill often hard-to-fill technical specialist roles. They maintain transparency and integrity while supporting both jobseekers and employers with relocation, work permit rules, and the 30% ruling. Their no-nonsense approach is built on extensive technical and international recruitment expertise, making them a trusted partner for companies seeking highly skilled IT and engineering professionals across The Netherlands and occasionally abroad.

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