Performance Engineer

Overview

Job Description

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
• - Work with a wide variety of our systems software, including 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

Required Skills

• - 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

Benefits

• - Remote first
• - Flexible working hours
• - Premium healthcare with 100% of premiums covered for employees and dependents