Performance Engineer

About the Position

We are seeking a Performance Engineer to optimize the performance of Oxide systems across various levels, from hardware to the application stack. If you are passionate about understanding and improving system performance, we want you on our team.

Responsibilities

As a Performance Engineer, you will:

• Work rigorously to understand existing limiters to performance, wherever those limiters may lie.
• Prototype improvements to the system, be they small fixes, larger scale re-writes, or entirely de novo subsystems.
• Work on systems of a variety of ages, spanning from decades-old to entirely new - and everything in between.
• Work on systems primarily written in Rust and C.
• Work with a wide variety of our systems software, including (but not limited to!) our host operating system (Helios), our hypervisor (Propolis), our block storage service (Crucible), our embedded operating system (Hubris), and our control plane (Omicron).
• Work with a variety of hardware as needed to understand and model the performance ramifications of different architectural or component decisions.
• Develop infrastructure and tooling to better understand systems performance.

Requirements

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Believe that every instruction is sacred, every instruction is great.
• Love to hunt slow, broken code - and replace it with a vastly improved alternative.
• Are deeply analytical and data-intensive.
• Have used whatever tooling at your disposal to understand systems behavior (e.g., DTrace/eBPF, snoop/tcpdump, truss/strace).
• Have implemented your own tools where the right tool didn’t exist (or otherwise needed to be extended).
• Have experience shipping software written in Rust, C, or another systems-oriented language.

We Offer

• Compensation: Everyone at Oxide makes $275,000 USD per year, regardless of location.
• 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.

About the Company

At Oxide, our values are very explicit and can be seen in daily life:

• Rigorous: We enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
• Urgent: We are not above the judicious short-cut.
• Versatile: Our greatest strength is the breadth of our team.
• Transparent: Our consensus-driven RFD process is a testament to our transparency.
• Responsible: We both lead and follow, having our own domains but also helping others on their parts.
• Curious: Our insatiable desire to learn is matched by our empathy in teaching others.
• Humorous: We are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.

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