About the Position

We are seeking a Product Assurance Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary team to ensure Oxide ships the highest quality product to our customers. If you are a curious, detail-oriented person who loves shipping polished products, we want you on our team.

Responsibilities

As a Product Assurance Engineer working at Oxide, you will:

Design and execute workload-driven stress tests, focusing on workloads that replicate realistic production traffic patterns.
Instrument, observe, and correlate metrics to characterize and pinpoint system issues.
Drive chaos-monkey-style tests to simulate common hardware failure modes and control plane outages.
Investigate availability and reliability gaps, and produce reproducible failure reports.
Work with engineers across the software stack to triage findings and verify fixes and mitigations.
Improve the assurance infrastructure itself: scripts, harnesses, chaos tooling, and automated regression suites.

Requirements

You will thrive in this role if you:

Have deep familiarity with troubleshooting traffic issues at different network layers and characterizing performance and reliability of network data paths.
Are comfortable with low-level debugging, reading packet captures, and reasoning from raw protocol state.
Enjoy hands-on work with test infrastructure.
Have a track record of finding non-obvious reliability bugs in complex systems.
Are proficient in at least one scripting or systems language (Python, Rust, Go) for building test harnesses and automating workload generation.
Enjoy writing: clear bug reports, knowledge articles, and technical documentation.

Nice to Have

Experience with reliability-oriented testing.
Familiarity with network troubleshooting and performance characterization.

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 families and lives outside of our jobs are very important to us; our schedules are flexible to reflect and support that.
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

At Oxide, we are very explicit about our values, which can be seen in daily life:

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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