GPU Container Expert – Remote, EU

About the Company

We are building a fully featured European AI cloud with everything needed to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models. In addition, our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy. We are ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We recently raised $64M in Series A and are ready to reach new heights.

About the Role

You will be at the heart of building and optimizing GPU container infrastructure across Europe, working with some of the brightest engineers in the field. This role gives you the chance to shape how AI workloads run at scale in a European cloud environment.

Your Responsibilities

• Build, support, develop, and maintain GPU/accelerator infrastructure.
• Work closely with teammates, external partners, and upstream communities related to GPU and accelerator infrastructure and driver development.
• Speed up container runtimes and adjust storage handling on disk.
• Drive upstream development and actively contribute to relevant open-source communities.
• Make sure there is high performance, stability, and scalability of GPU containers across our infrastructure.

Your Key Competencies

• 8+ years’ experience in container runtimes, familiarity with CRI.
• Strong Linux expertise, including high performance networking, and container filesystems.
• Solid GPU experience, especially with NVIDIA drivers.
• Hands-on experience building, optimizing, and troubleshooting GPU/accelerator infrastructure.
• Upstream development experience, including familiarity with community processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with strong organizational ability.

Success Criteria for this Role in the Next 6-12 Months

• Significant reduction in container startup times and improved runtime efficiency.
• Well-documented, stable GPU container infrastructure used across our platform.
• Active contributions upstream, strengthening our position in the open-source community.
• Strong collaboration with internal teams and external partners, making sure GPU infrastructure delivery is smooth.

Benefits

• Generous cash plus equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).
• Our operations are profitable, in addition to fast growth.
• You will be an integral part of the small yet mighty team of 59, challenging the status quo to make a positive difference in the lives of many people.
• You will work in small teams of experts.
• 27 nationalities in total, with 6 different ones in the management team.
• We foster a community-like atmosphere. We often enjoy each other’s company after work, for example, eating BBQ made by Ruben, our CEO by day and master chef by night.

Location

Remote role, based anywhere in the EU.
(For Helsinki-based candidates) This role requires presence in our Kamppi office at least 3 days per week.
Full-time, permanent contract.

How the Process Looks Like

1. Introduction chat with the TA Partner (45 mins): Learn more about Verda and share your career aspirations.
2. Technical interview with the team (60 mins): Look closely at your expertise and discuss technical challenges.
3. Final interview (60 mins): Meet with our CEO, CTO, and the wider team.

What's Next

Apply sooner than later. This job ad will be removed when we have found the right person.
Please submit your application through our Careers page. We do not accept applications sent by email.

Category

DevOps / Sysadmin