Senior Technical Support Engineer - Slurm

Responsibilities

• Own Slurm support cases from initial investigation through resolution for customers running production AI and HPC clusters.
• Diagnose complex problems involving slurmctld, slurmd, slurmdbd, job scheduling, node management, resource allocation, accounting, authentication, and high availability.
• Solve Slurm configuration and policy features, including partitions, reservations, priorities, fair-share, quality of service, backfill, preemption, GRES/TRES, cgroups, and job constraints.
• Investigate performance, reliability, and scalability issues using logs, diagnostic data, configuration analysis, reproductions, and source-level debugging when required.
• Isolate problems across Slurm and its surrounding dependencies, including Linux, MUNGE, databases, networking, parallel storage, containers, GPUs, and cluster-management systems.
• Advise customers on Slurm configuration, upgrades, operational practices, managing system resources, and safe recovery from production incidents.
• collaborate with engineering teams by producing clear technical descriptions, reproducible test cases, and well-supported defect reports.
• Develop guides, knowledge-base articles, diagnostic tools, and internal training that strengthen Slurm expertise across the support organization.
• What we need to see
• BS.c degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

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