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Control Plane Engineer
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Builds and improves the Omicron control plane for Oxide's rack-scale platform, writing mostly Rust for distributed systems that ship to customer datacenters. Works on performance, logging, tracing, metrics, and tooling to test and analyze complex systems.
About this role
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.
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