Performance Engineer

Are you an engineer who loves understanding and improving the performance of systems? We are seeking versatile engineers to work on the performance of Oxide systems wherever suboptimality is to be found: from the depths of hardware, through the operating system kernel and hypervisor and into the guest operating system — and to the highest levels of the application stack. As an engineer focused on systems performance, 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. You will thrive in this role if you: Believe that every instruction is sacred, every instruction is great. Lo