Performance Engineer
Remote$275kfull-timePosted 10mo ago
About the role
Performance-focused systems engineer to understand and improve performance across Oxide’s hardware, OS kernel/hypervisor, and application stack, primarily working with Rust and C across a range of systems and hardware.
Responsibilities
- 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 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.
Qualifications
- 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.
Skills
Required:Performance analysisRustCSystem tooling
Benefits
- Premium healthcare
- Compensation: Everyone at Oxide makes $275,000 USD, regardless of location (some exceptions for certain sales roles).
- Flexible working hours
- Remote first with PT overlap
- Transparent, values-driven culture with a consensus-driven hiring process (RFD) and learning opportunities.
Last updated Jul 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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