Are you a planning leader who thrives on bringing order to chaos, developing processes and tools, and collaborating with a multi-disciplined team to align on a plan? Oxide is in a period of exceptional momentum and growth. We need demand and supply planning processes that enable our operations to efficiently scale with customer demand. We’re looking for a Demand & Supply Planning Manager to own our operational forecast, align that demand signal with key partners, and implement a process to efficiently communicate the plan of record. You’ll be the connective tissue between sales, finance, operations, and our contract manufacturing partners – making sure we know what to build and when to build it.
Generate and publish our master production schedule (MPS) that will drive our supply chain.
Work with sales and finance teams to ensure data consistency across multiple systems (SFDC, ERP).
Establish methodology to reflect confirmed orders, pipeline deals, and baseline forecasts in a consolidated demand signal.
Ensure forecast provides visibility by configuration for items that drive long lead time material decisions or significant impact to manufacturing resources.
Define and implement a materials requirement planning process to ensure we are clear to build to meet customer commitments.
Maintain our existing item master list and ensure data integrity during ERP implementation.
Improve our existing process materials planning process to factor in alternate part numbers, configurable products, and design revisions.
Refine our sales & operations planning process by defining roles & responsibilities, the review cadence, and defining key inputs & outputs.
Have experience in demand, supply, and materials planning for complex electronics
Are familiar with contract manufacturers in the electronics industry and how to align production schedules across their internal teams
Enjoy ideation, implementation, and iteration of new processes and tools to align plans across groups and organizations.
Understand the goals of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) with experience planning across multiple time horizons.
Balance ambiguity and conflicting inputs to make the optimal plan.
Possess the discipline to define and execute on set cadences while holding stakeholders accountable to their deliverables.
Have the technical and analytical skills required to understand complex demand scenarios, supply constraints, and material dependencies in a rapidly changing environment.
Believe in fully documenting your ideas & enjoy reading the documentation produced by others.
Learn enough about our product to understand our approach.
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Listen to some of our operations-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Scaling Manufacturing about our experience rapidly ramping our manufacturing and supply chain.
Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1 to hear about how everything came together for our first customer shipment.
Integrating Hardware and Software Teams on the benefits of having hardware and software engineers working together.
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Are you a people person who likes to bring order to chaos and is determined to ensure customers succeed? We are seeking a technical program manager to help us design, track, and prioritize our large scale customer deployment efforts. This is an intensely collaborative position, and while it’s very remote-friendly, candidates must be able to work a US Pacific timezone schedule.
Be the heart of communications around customer deployments, tailoring messaging to diverse stakeholders across customers, executives, technical, and logistics teams
Work closely with internal teams and customers to design the lightest possible process to make small and large customer deployments easy and repeatable
Collaborate with other functions across engineering, operations and customer facing teams to understand the dependencies between work streams and mitigate risks early
Coordinate successful customer deployments in both the commercial and federal spaces - using what you learn from each deployment to improve the process along the way and providing logistical support as needed
Identify opportunities to scale related tooling and systems and work with teams across the business to implement
Communicate regularly with customer facing teams to ensure transparency in plans and progress towards customer priorities. Adjust plans thoughtfully as priorities change
Contribute to process documentation and help maintain the accuracy of data in our program management tools. Make recommendations to improve our ways of working
Contribute to other areas of the product that interest you–beyond your day-to-day program management duties
Would call communication your superpower and can converse clearly with technical teams, executives, and customers alike in their own vernacular
Feel a sense of responsibility for the success of each customer, and measure that success in their terms
Have previously worked with complex cross-functional deliverables involving multiple teams and can context switch like a pro
Are resilient in the face of the challenges and setbacks that come with developing and maturing new processes
Excel in fast paced dynamic environments
Have familiarity with datacenter operations and hardware installations
Can work hours that correspond to working hours in the US Pacific timezone
Are eligible to support U.S federal customers (does not require security clearance)
Are energized by the thought of operating between traditional roles and silos
Enjoy organizing and aren’t intimidated by ambiguity
Value the written word, can concisely communicate in written form
Get excited about a wide range of technical topics and dig really deeply into them
Learn enough about our product to understand what we’re building
Listen to "Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz" to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends to get a sense for how we operate. A few recommendations:
RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide on how we got to our writing-intensive culture
Hell is Other Networks to get a flavor for our technical approach in supporting customers
Cultural Idiosyncrasies on the (many?) unusual aspects of Oxide’s culture
RTO or GTFO on why Oxide is a remote-first company
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Are you an electrical engineer who prides yourself on building from first principles? We are seeking electrical engineers to join us in building the next generation of rack-scale, fully-integrated machines. We are looking for engineers who are comfortable working on complicated designs for their entire lifecycle, from concept all the way through sustaining engineering.
Work with software engineers to co-design a system, finding ways to solve problems by making software and hardware cooperate rather than operate at cross-purposes
Work with mechanical engineers to design servers, switches, and a rack that work together, solving everything from thermal to cabling along the way
Design and develop electronic circuits for our high-speed boards
Simulate and test the board designs
Specify, design, and support functional test in manufacturing
Ensure boards are compliant with all industry standards and regulatory requirements
These responsibilities are just a starting place! We’re a small company, we don’t have rigid roles, and we have a lot to do — we can help you grow wherever your interests take you.
Love getting into the weeds of circuit design and love finding new and innovative ways to simulate and test board designs
Approach schematic entry as a craft, realizing a readable schematic is easier to review and understand
Want to work with the latest technologies, even if you know doing so might come with very limited documentation and having to figure out things yourself
Are energized by the intricacies of signal and power integrity and you love diving into the complexity
Have experience prototyping and testing your own boards from end to end
Feel at home surrounded by oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, frequency counters, etc
Have experience with leading PCB technology and electrical design as well as familiarity with the following areas: DDR4/5, PCIe and I2C/SPI/UART buses
Believe in fully documenting your ideas
Enjoy reading the documentation produced by others
Are familiar with GitHub or willing to learn basic software development workflows
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Check out our blog post on how we do remote hardware development
Listen to some of our hardware-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Bringing up Cosmo on bringing up our AMD Turin-based compute sled
Tales from the Bringup Lab on bringing up our first compute sled
The Sidecar Switch on bringing up our switch
Cabling the Backplane on the mechanical and electrical design of the backplane
Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries on our escapades achieving EMI compliance
The Power of Proto Boards! on how we quickly iterate on board design
Raiding the Minibar on our adventures with a board we designed to aid manufacturing
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
At Oxide, we see every issue in the datacenter as our own, whether it’s hardware, software, or the interaction between the two. Supporting customers in the field goes beyond just replacing hardware: we’re solving problems end-to-end, building trust, and making sure our systems deliver as promised. We are looking for candidates located in the Midwest.
Work closely with customers to deliver timely onsite support — from rack installation to hardware replacements and upgrades — while also troubleshooting complex hardware and software issues to quickly remediate failures.
Perform hands-on work directly on production racks, balancing care, precision, and speed while ensuring minimal disruption to customer operations.
Work closely with our Manufacturing and Operations teams to coordinate replacement parts — ensuring the right components are ordered, shipped, and ready when you arrive onsite.
Manage and triage inbound customer communications, ensuring timely responses, updates, and resolution within SLA commitments.
Collaborate with Support Engineering and other teams to drive resolution, share learnings, and inform product improvements.
Document troubleshooting steps, solutions, and best practices for both internal and customer-facing knowledge bases.
Provide direct feedback from the field to help improve product quality, reliability, and usability.
Act as a trusted technical point of contact for customers, whether onsite or remote, building long-term credibility and trust.
Participate in regular on-call rotations to provide support (onsite and remote) for critical customer issues.
Strong proficiency with Unix/Linux system administration (Solaris/illumos experience a plus).
Solid understanding of server architecture, including compute, storage, and networking fundamentals.
Hands-on experience working safely and confidently on racks in production environments.
Hands-on experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and troubleshooting.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
Exposure to cloud orchestration platforms and API-driven operations.
Experience debugging distributed systems and working across hardware/software boundaries.
Knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing) and system performance tuning.
Ability to interpret logs across the stack to diagnose and resolve issues.
Feel a sense of responsibility for the success of each customer, and measure that success in their terms.
Have deep, hands-on experience in datacenter environments or enterprise IT operations.
Know your way around servers, storage, and networking gear.
Possess strong troubleshooting skills across both hardware and software domains.
Are ready to travel often, including on short notice, to be there for customers onsite, while continuing to support them remotely when not in the field.
Are comfortable lifting and installing datacenter equipment (up to 50 lbs).
Are capable of triaging and prioritizing multiple tasks and issues.
Are deeply curious about the customers that you work with, seeking to understand what makes their businesses thrive and what challenges they are facing.
Pride yourself in developing a deep understanding of the product you are supporting, and are excited at the prospect of being able to run it yourself!
Get excited about a wide range of technical topics and dig really deep into them.
Don’t mind coworkers getting really excited about decades-old computers.
Are passionate about helping to shape a new product in these early days.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Watch What is the Oxide Cloud Computer? from Cloud Field Day to understand the product that we have built and why.
Watch What Does Oxide Value Mean to Oxide Computer Company? from Cloud Field Day to understand how we think of the value that we deliver to customers.
Listen to (or watch!) Uncrating the Oxide Rack on the Software Misadventures Podcast to learn about our perspective on go-to-market (and to see the crate!).
Listen to (or watch!) Inside Oxide on Changelog & Friends to learn about the current expansion of the company and team.
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Scaling Manufacturing on the challenges of scaling to meet overwhelming demand.
Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria on our approach to engineering the integration software that customers need.
Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered! on the occasion of shipping our first rack in the summer of 2023.
Launching the Cloud Computer on our general availability of the Oxide rack later in 2023.
RTO or GTFO on our perspective on the rash of RTO mandates.
Reflecting on Founder Mode on the widely-read Paul Graham piece.
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor is reflected in the quality of our customer engagements; ensuring that we see issues all the way through to resolution.
Our transparency can be seen in how we engage and communicate with our customers.
Our responsibility means that we are accountable for all aspects of making our customers successful; whether that is mapping out a new project or shepherding a support ticket through to a positive resolution.
Our curiosity drives our desire to learn everything we can about our customers and the market dynamics of the industries they operate in.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Do you love operating systems kernel implementation, digging into the gritty interface where software meets machine? We are seeking a software engineer to work on our illumos-based host operating system, Helios. Helios sits at the center of the Oxide rack, interfacing directly with a wide range of hardware, embedded software, and third-party firmware to support the Oxide control plane, hypervisor, and its virtual machine instances. The host OS is holistically designed to begin execution with the processor’s first instruction; it uniquely subsumes and replaces functionality that UEFI and ACPI firmware provide in other architectures.
Work with a helpful and experienced team to design, build, and bring up host system software on current and future Oxide computers
Read and write code in C (for the operating system writ large), in Rust (for for some in-kernel components and for higher-level services), and/or microprocessor assembly. All the code you write will be open source.
Grow and apply your understanding of microprocessors, through deep familiarity with available documentation, interacting directly with real hardware, and producing your own documents where the vendor’s fall short
Contribute to the security and resiliency of the system by designing for failure from the ground up
Participate in a rigorous code review process and help your colleagues maintain our software in a production-ready state at all times
Apply a customer-centric view to the development of new end-to-end features and functions and help realize them across the stack
Contribute to the design of new Oxide hardware and software components elsewhere in the stack
Have experience in operating systems kernel development
Seek the versatility of working from core OS architecture to hardware interface to networking to device development.
Enjoy the freedom of blazing your own architectural trails and solving problems from first principles
Are up to the challenge of interfacing with hardware that has missing or inaccurate documentation
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 own 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
Experiment with an illumos-derived operating system, familiarizing yourself with tools like DTrace and MDB to explore the system
Prowl around the code in Helios
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Helios on the genesis of our illumos derivative as discussed in RFD 26
Holistic Boot on our approach to BIOS-free booting
Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino) on the work we’re doing for AMD’s Turin microprocessor
Holistic Engineering on our integrated hardware/software approach
Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug on tracking down a long-standing data corruption bug in ZFS
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
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.
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 several different kinds of networking devices: merchant silicon-based NICs, switching silicon, FPGA-based NICs, etc.
Read and write code in C (for the operating system writ large), in Rust (for the Oxide Packet Transformation Engine and perhaps Propolis), and potentially some P4. All the code you write will be open source.
Help to improve the performance of the lowest layers of the networking stack, with much in scope: improved use of hardware offloads, software rearchitecture, implementation improvements, etc.
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 perfom 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 own 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
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Prowl around the code in Helios
Read IPD 45 Flow trees in the MAC datapath to get a flavor for the kind of work this role entails
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Helios on the genesis of our illumos derivative as discussed in RFD 26
Rack-scale Networking to understand our approach to networking and some of the
Holistic Engineering on our integrated hardware/software approach
Hell is other networks to learn about our disposition to customer problems
Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces to hear our perspective on what software needs from networking silicon
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
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.
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.
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.
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
When Async Attacks! on a particularly pathological performance problem and the tooling we developed to understand it
Mr. Nagle’s Wild Ride on a timeless performance tale, re-told anew
Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service on our storage service and our approach to improving its performance
Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri on how hardware comprises the ultimate limiter of performance — and why different approaches are called for by different problems
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Do you love to directly support the success of customers? We are seeking a Support Engineer that shares our beliefs around the primacy of support. Far too often the support function inside of a company is relegated to an issue triage center, focused more on the exoneration of a company’s product or service than on resolving the customer’s overall issue. At Oxide we are different; we view the customer’s issue as our own, regardless of the cause, and consider supporting our customers the responsibility of everyone in the company.
Work closely with customers, from early discovery meetings, to installation and onboarding, to ongoing production operations, helping ensure that they have an exceptional experience running on Oxide.
Play a key role in expanding Oxide’s global support footprint, particularly across Europe (GMT and CET timezones) and the Pacific time zone. As our customer base grows, you will help evolve how we provide responsive, high-quality support across time zones by improving coverage, handoffs, and overall customer experience at a global scale.
Manage and triage inbound customer communications, driving customer issues to resolution by providing timely responses that meet our SLA levels.
Participate in regular on-call rotations to provide support for critical customer issues.
Build and maintain customer and team knowledge base documentation for troubleshooting common issues.
Work with the product assurance team to perform system level validations and participate in the release readiness process ahead of customer updates.
Work with sales, solutions engineering, and product assurance teams to create customer-specific runbooks that support installations and ongoing operations.
Work closely with engineering to prioritize bug fixes and feature requests, documenting and communicating status and next steps.
Build credibility with Oxide customers, establishing Oxide as a trusted partner.
Provide simple tools, processes, and documentation for customers to get the service they need.
Thoroughly document feedback from customers and collaborate with internal teams to ensure that our products and services continue improving over time.
Feel a sense of responsibility for the success of each customer, and measure that success in their terms.
Are open to travel on short notice to participate in onsite troubleshooting when the situation calls for in-person support.
Have experience supporting a broad and highly technical product or service.
Are deeply curious about the companies that you work with, seeking to understand what makes their businesses thrive and what challenges they are facing.
Pride yourself in developing a deep understanding of the product you are supporting, and are excited at the prospect of being able to run it yourself!
Get excited about a wide range of technical topics and dig really deep into them.
Don’t mind coworkers getting really excited about decades-old computers.
Are passionate about helping to shape a new product in these early days.
Nice-to-have, but not required, is the desire to obtain a security clearance for onsite federal customer support needs.
Learn enough about our technologies and our product to understand our approach.
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get an idea of how we work.
Listen to Hell is Other Networks to get a flavor for our technical approach in supporting customers.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor is reflected in the quality of our customer engagements; ensuring that we see issues all the way through to resolution.
Our transparency can be seen in how we engage and communicate with our customers.
Our responsibility means that we are accountable for all aspects of making our customers successful; whether that is mapping out a new project or shepherding a support ticket through to a positive resolution.
Our curiosity drives our desire to learn everything we can about our customers and the market dynamics of the industries they operate in.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Are you an experienced Rust programmer who loves building, deploying, and debugging distributed systems? We are seeking software engineers to work on the Oxide control plane, the spinal column of our software that is responsible for managing and provisioning virtual machines, storage and networking.
Work on a robust distributed system, Omicron, that ships across an air gap to Oxide customers running racks in their own datacenters.
Write code mostly in Rust, read code primarily written in Rust with some C. The code you write will be open source, be it in Omicron itself or the many components with which it interacts, e.g. our block storage service (Crucible), our hypervisor (Propolis), our host operating system (Helios), our embedded operating system (Hubris), or another of our many software components.
Collaborate with other engaged, friendly, systems-oriented engineers to understand customer use cases and implement the core of the Oxide platform.
Work to understand and improve the performance of the services offered by the Oxide rack.
Develop tools to test and analyze complex systems, including those deployed in production at customer sites. Logging, tracing, and metrics are critical pieces of distributed systems, and you’ll get the chance to dig into them all.
Have experience shipping software written in Rust
Have experience working on distributed systems
Are energized by the thought of diving deep on neglected (but essential!) distributed systems topics like cluster attestation or live system software update
Believe in fully documenting your ideas for both current colleagues and your own future self
Enjoy reading excellent documentation produced by others
Make the tools you wish you had
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Watch Update on Update to understand the challenge of systems software in the large.
Prowl around the code in Omicron
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
The Saga of Sagas on how we implement workflow management in the control plane
A Crate is Born on how we think about software modularity and reuse
The Frontend of the Computer on our API-driven approach in the control plane
Get You a State Machine for Great Good on how we use property-based testing
Querying Metrics with OxQL on why we developed our own query language for the control plane
Debugger-Driven Development on how we have developed our Omicron debugger (omdb) in parallel with Omicron itself
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Do you love operating systems implementation, digging into the gritty interface where software meets machine? We are seeking a software engineer to work on our Rust-based VMM, Propolis, and its containing illumos-based host operating system, Helios. These technologies sit at the center of the Oxide technology stack, interfacing directly with a wide range of hardware, embedded software, and third-party firmware to support the Oxide control plane and its virtual machine instances. The Rust-based VMM is a de novo implementation based on the bhyve hypervisor.
Work with a helpful and experienced team to design, build, and bring up host system software, in-kernel virtualization, and the user-space VMM on current and future Oxide computers
Read and write code in Rust (Propolis), C (Helios), and/or microprocessor assembly. All the code you write will be open source.
Grow and apply your understanding of microprocessors, through deep familiarity with available documentation, interacting directly with real hardware, and producing your own documents where the vendor’s fall short
Contribute to the security and resiliency of the system by designing for failure from the ground up
Participate in a rigorous code review process and help your colleagues maintain our software in a production-ready state at all times
Apply a customer-centric view to the development of new end-to-end features and functions and help realize them across the stack
Contribute to the design of new Oxide hardware and software components elsewhere in the stack
Are familiar with operating systems or virtualization concepts and comfortable in C, Rust, or other low-level systems languages
Seek the versatility of working from core OS architecture to hardware interface to networking to virtual device development.
Enjoy the freedom of blazing your own architectural trails and solving problems from first principles
Have previously worked in the guts of virtualization technologies such as KVM, Hyper-V, bhyve, or related systems
Are up to the challenge of interfacing with hardware that has missing or inaccurate documentation
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 own 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
Experiment with Propolis, using tools like DTrace to explore the system
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Helios on the genesis of our illumos derivative as discussed in RFD 26
Holistic Boot on our approach to BIOS-free booting
Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino) on the work we’re doing for AMD’s Turin microprocessor
Holistic Engineering on our integrated hardware/software approach
Virtualizing Time on the thorniness of getting time to work in a hypervisor
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Are you a software engineer with a disposition toward networked systems design or networking engineer with a disposition toward systems programming and software development? We are seeking engineers to join our networking team with a focus on modeling and verification of Oxide deployments, developing testbed technologies to emulate both Oxide systems and broader deployment environments, and work with our customer support team to prepare for new types of deployment environments.
As a cloud infrastructure company, our success is defined by our customers' success in deploying Oxide Cloud Computers that host critical business functions. There are many different types of environments our customers deploy Oxide systems into today and the heterogeneity and scale is growing rapidly. We take being prepared for any and all environments that Oxide Cloud Computers will deploy to very seriously. This role is all about that: being prepared. We view validation and verification of cloud infrastructure as an engineering discipline in its own right and are looking for engineers who share this viewpoint.
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.
Collaborate with other engaged, friendly systems engineers to understand customer use cases and ensure the Oxide platform is ready for a wide variety of deployment environments.
Develop tools to emulate and analyze complex networks, including those deployed in production at customer sites. Logging, tracing, and metrics are critical pieces of distributed systems, and you’ll get the chance to dig into them all.
Write code in Rust, P4 and more. The code you write will be open source (e.g., Falcon, a Rust-based framework for modeling and deploying networked systems with emulated Oxide racks), and across many different codebases.
Operate across multiple layers of the stack to model and verify how true rack-scales system interact their deployment environment, including our integrated switch, a custom compute sled, and all software connecting and orchestrating them.
Have experience deploying and operating large-scale mission-critical network and compute infrastructure.
Have previously worked with Rust or another low-level systems language such as C.
Have implemented networking protocols in environments that were constrained by performance and correctness.
Have experience designing, implementing, deploying and operating data center networks using dynamic routing protocols and overlay networks.
Have experience with BGP implementation or deployment.
Enjoy the idea of owning the inter-rack networking end-to-end (host OS + NIC + switch + switch OS) – and also of integrating that networking with a customer’s larger network.
Are energized by the thought of jumping between implementing a new protocol (or a new implementation of an old one!), analyzing customer networking pathologies, and bringing kernel drivers to life.
Produce good documentation and/or written descriptions of your ideas.
Believe that the closed nature of low-level networking is a barrier to progress and want to work with a team breaking down that barrier.
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Watch Building a Rack Scale Computer with P4 at the Core and DTrace + P4.
Check out OPTE — and watch Kyle Simpson’s dtrace.conf(24) talk
Listen to some of our network-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Rack-scale Networking to understand our approach to networking and some of the details of our implementation
The Network Behind the Network on the specific challenges of our service processor network
Hell is other networks to learn about our disposition to customer problems
Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces to hear our perspective on what software needs from networking silicon
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Are you a software engineer with a disposition towards networking software who loves working up and down the OSI stack? We are seeking a software engineer to join our networking team. 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 a networking-focused software engineer who is energized by this approach, and excited about joining our team to develop new kinds of functionality only made possible by true hardware/software co-design.
Collaborate with other engaged, friendly systems engineers to understand customer use cases and implement the core of the Oxide platform.
Operate across multiple layers of the stack to build a true rack-scale system, including our integrated switch, a custom compute sled, and all software connecting and orchestrating them.
Develop tools to simulate and analyze complex networks, including those deployed in production at customer sites. Logging, tracing, and metrics are critical pieces of distributed systems, and you’ll get the chance to dig into them all.
Write code in Rust, C, and some P4. The code you write will be open source (e.g., the Oxide Packet Transformation Engine, an in-kernel Rust module for packet processing), and across many different codebases.
Have previously worked with Rust or another low-level systems language such as C.
Have a deep understanding of load balancing.
Have experience operating and developing IPsec-based VPN technologies.
Have implemented networking protocols in environments that were constrained by performance and correctness.
Have experience designing, implementing, deploying and operating data center networks using dynamic routing protocols and overlay networks.
Have experience with BGP implementation or deployment.
Enjoy the idea of owning the inter-rack networking end-to-end (host OS + NIC + switch + switch OS) – and also of integrating that networking with a customer’s larger network.
Are energized by the thought of jumping between implementing a new protocol (or a new implementation of an old one!), analyzing customer networking pathologies, and bringing kernel drivers to life.
Produce good documentation and/or written descriptions of your ideas.
Believe that the closed nature of low-level networking is a barrier to progress and want to work with a team breaking down that barrier.
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Watch Building a Rack Scale Computer with P4 at the Core and DTrace + P4.
Check out OPTE — and watch Kyle Simpson’s dtrace.conf(24) talk
Listen to some of our network-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Rack-scale Networking to understand our approach to networking and some of the details of our implementation
The Network Behind the Network on the specific challenges of our service processor network
Hell is other networks to learn about our disposition to customer problems
Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces to hear our perspective on what software needs from networking silicon
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.