Systems Engineer

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own low-level infrastructure work for a cloud compute platform, taking major components from first design through production. The role centers on performance, isolation and reliability close to the hardware, working alongside senior technical leadership in a very small team.

What you'll do

• Create core runtime and compute components that keep workloads securely separated from one another.
• Take full responsibility for major platform components and carry them into production use.
• Partner with technical leadership on durable state, checkpointing and recovery features for continuously running workloads.
• Shorten startup times and tune performance along latency-sensitive code paths.
• Architect storage, scheduling and network layers able to grow across multiple data centers.
• Investigate problems, measure behavior and benchmark components under realistic load, always measuring before tuning.
• Help shape the longer-term infrastructure plan, including hardware-accelerated and on-premises capacity.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• Strong grounding in operating systems internals, memory management, storage or networking at the lowest layers.
• A track record of driving an ambitious systems project from start to finish, in industry, open source or academic research.
• Public, checkable evidence of your work, such as code contributions, papers, technical articles or an active code repository.
• Hands-on exposure to virtualization, hypervisors or container runtimes.
• Working fluency in a systems language such as Rust or C.
• Signs of exceptional drive, for example competitive sport, hackathon success, competitive programming or visible technical commentary.
• A finished undergraduate degree or an equivalent demanding program, in any discipline.

Bonus points

• Background in replicated or consensus-based data stores.
• Exposure to accelerator hardware or machine learning infrastructure.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 180,000 to 300,000 per year
• Equity
• Performance bonus
• Relocation support

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• On-site, 5 days per week
• Full-time