Product Assurance Engineer

Are you a curious, detail-oriented person who loves shipping polished products? We are seeking a Product Assurance Engineer to work on a multi-disciplinary team to assure that Oxide ships the highest quality product to our customers. You will contribute to the practice of reliability-oriented testing: designing experiments that surface latent bugs, availability gaps, and performance cliffs before customers encounter them. As a Product Assurance Engineer working at Oxide, you will: Design and execute workload-driven stress tests, with a focus on workloads that replicate realistic production traffic patterns such as high connection-rate workloads, micro-burst traffic, large-flow saturation, multicast, and adversarial packet patterns. Instrument, observe, and correlate metrics that help 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. You will thrive in this role if you: Have deep familiarity with troubleshooting traffic issues at different network layers and characterising performance and reli...