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Control Plane Engineer

Oxide Computer Company· Software
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About the role

Engineer role focused on building, deploying, and debugging distributed systems for Oxide’s control plane, primarily using Rust to manage provisioning of virtual machines, storage, and networking across air-gapped rack deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Work on a robust distributed system (Omicron) that ships across air gap to customer racks.
  • Write and read Rust code, with some C; contribute to open-source components (Omicron and interacting components such as Crucible, Propolis, Helios, Hubris).
  • Collaborate with systems-oriented engineers to understand customer use cases and implement the core of the Oxide platform.
  • Improve performance of services offered by the Oxide rack.
  • Develop tools to test and analyze complex systems, including production deployments; work with logging, tracing, and metrics.

Qualifications

  • Experience shipping software written in Rust
  • Experience working on distributed systems
  • Interest in deep topics like cluster attestation or live system software update
  • Ability to document ideas clearly for colleagues and future self
  • Enjoy reading high-quality documentation produced by others
  • Ability to create useful tools and automation

Skills

Required:Rust programmingDistributed systems

Benefits

  • Premium healthcare (medical PPO, dental, vision) with 100% premiums covered for employees and dependents
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote-first working arrangement with overlap with Pacific Time
  • Compensation of $275,000 USD per year for all employees
Last updated Jul 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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