Networking Deployment Engineer
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Networking Deployment Engineer
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 working 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 are 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, but we have also developed our own switch and the entire stack of software from the lowest levels of firmware to end-user experience - and everything in between. To understand why weve 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.
As a networking deployment engineer, you will:
• 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 youll 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-scale systems interact with their deployment environment, including our integrated switch, a custom compute sled, and all software connecting and orchestrating them.
You will thrive in this role if you:
• 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 customers 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.
Before applying for this role, you should:
• 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 Simpsons dtrace.conf24 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. • Life at Oxide: We are very explicit about our values and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example.
Our company values:
• Rigor: We enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering. • Urgency: We are not above the judicious short-cut. • Versatility: Our greatest strength is the breadth of our team. • Transparency: Our consensus-driven RFD process. • Responsibility: We both lead and follow, we have our own domains but we also help others on their parts. • Curiosity: We have an insatiable desire to learn - and our empathy in our love of teaching others. • Humor: We are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Working at Oxide:
• Remote first: Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours. • Flexible working hours: Our families and lives outside of our jobs are very important to us, our schedules are flexible to reflect and support that. • Premium healthcare: We offer the best medical PPO dental and vision plans we can find and cover 100% of premiums for employees and dependents.
Compensation:
• Everyone at Oxide makes $250,000 USD regardless of location. Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.
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