Job Details

Overview

Do you love both networking and operating systems implementation, digging into the gritty interface where software meets the wire? We are seeking a software engineer to work on our illumos-based host operating system, Helios with a specific focus on its networking aspects. We are taking a very ambitious approach with respect to networking: not only have we developed our own compute sled and cabled backplane, we have also developed our own switch, and then the entire stack of software from the lowest levels of firmware to end-user experience — and everything in between. To understand why we've taken this steeper path (and the advantages that it affords), listen to the team in its own voice in our Oxide and Friends discussion on rack-scale networking. We are seeking an operating system software engineer who is energized by this end-to-end approach, and excited about joining our team to develop new kinds of functionality only made possible by true hardware/software co-design.

Responsibilities

• Work with a helpful and experienced team to design, build, and bring up host system software, with a particular focus on its networking aspects.
• Enhance/write drivers for different kinds of networking devices: merchant silicon-based NICs, switching silicon, FPGA-based NICs, etc.
• Help to improve the performance of the lowest layers of the networking stack, with scope including hardware offloads, software rearchitecture, and implementation improvements.

Qualifications

• Are familiar with operating systems networking concepts and are comfortable in C and/or Rust.
• Have dealt with networks at the hardware layer—and operating systems at the network layer.
• Are excited by the idea of writing operating system kernel code that enables networking hardware features.
• Love to make networks perform at their line rate, knowing that it requires rigorous analysis, potentially novel architecture, and careful implementation.
• Have previously worked in the guts of operating systems.
• Appreciate the hard-won thrill of debugging a knotty problem to root cause.
• Believe in fully documenting your ideas for both current colleagues and your future self.
• Enjoy reading excellent documentation produced by others.
• Make the tools you wish you had.
• Communicate effectively with engineers across a range of disciplines to exchange knowledge and expertise.

Working at Oxide

• Remote first
• Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.
• Our families and lives outside of our jobs are very important to us; our schedules are flexible to reflect and support that.
• We offer the best medical PPO, dental, and vision plans and cover 100% of premiums for employees and dependents.
• Every team member earns $235,000 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)

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Applying for: Operating System Networking Engineer

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