Operating System Networking Engineer

About the Position

We are seeking an Operating System Networking Engineer to work on our illumos-based host operating system, Helios, with a specific focus on its networking aspects. Do you love both networking and operating systems implementation, digging into the gritty interface where software meets the wire? We are taking a very ambitious approach with respect to networking: not only have we developed our own compute sled and cabled backplane, we have also developed our own switch, and then the entire stack of software from the lowest levels of firmware to end-user experience - and everything in between! To understand why we’ve taken this steeper path (and the advantages that it affords), listen to the team in its own voice in our Oxide and Friends discussion on rack-scale networking.

Responsibilities

As an engineer working on operating system networking, you will:

• Work with a helpful and experienced team to design, build, and bring up host system software, with a particular focus on its networking aspects
• Enhance/write drivers for several different kinds of networking devices: merchant silicon-based NICs, switching silicon, FPGA-based NICs, etc.
• Read and write code in C (for the operating system writ large), in Rust (for the Oxide Packet Transformation Engine and perhaps Propolis), and potentially some P4. All the code you write will be open source.
• Help to improve the performance of the lowest layers of the networking stack, with much in scope: improved use of hardware offloads, software rearchitecture, implementation improvements, etc.

Requirements

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Are familiar with operating systems networking concepts and are comfortable in C and/or Rust
• Have dealt with networks at the hardware layer - and operating systems at the network layer
• Are excited by the idea of writing operating system kernel code that enables networking hardware features
• Love to make networks perform at their line rate, knowing that it requires rigorous analysis, potentially novel architecture, and careful implementation
• Have previously worked in the guts of operating systems
• Appreciate the hard-won thrill of debugging a knotty problem to root cause
• Believe in fully documenting your ideas for both current colleagues and your own future self
• Enjoy reading excellent documentation produced by others
• Make the tools you wish you had
• Communicate effectively with engineers across a range of disciplines to exchange knowledge and expertise

We Offer

• Remote first: Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.
• Flexible working hours: Our schedules are flexible to reflect and support your families and lives outside of our jobs.
• Premium healthcare: We offer the best medical PPO, dental, and vision plans we can find and cover 100% of premiums for employees and dependents.
• Compensation: Everyone at Oxide makes $275,000 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)

About the Company

Life at Oxide is very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:

• Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
• Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
• Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
• Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
• Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
• Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
• Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.

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