Staff Systems Engineer

DKMRBH Inc.

New York, NY, United States

about 2 months ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

8 years minimum

Compensation

$180,000.0 - $205,000.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.careerjet.com

Tech stack

Systems Engineering C++ (Programming Language) Cloud Computing Linux File Systems Distributed Data Store Distributed Systems Hypervisor Quick EMUlator (QEMU) System Programming Ceph (Software)

Job description

Own architectural direction for infrastructure orchestrating tens of millions of Firecracker VMs monthly across a global bare-metal fleet. You’ll design systems at the kernel/filesystem level using eBPF, cgroups, namespaces to optimize petabyte-scale performance. Key Responsibilities

Own architectural direction for critical infrastructure platforms
Drive reliability, performance, operational excellence as compute triples
Work with technical co-founders on long-term technical roadmaps
Lead complex infrastructure initiatives from problem to delivery
Mentor senior engineers and raise engineering standards

Requirements

8+ years in low-level systems or distributed infrastructure engineering

Built and owned large-scale distributed systems at prestigious orgs
Staff/Principal-level IC who changed direction/trajectory of an eng team
Low-level systems experience: kernel, filesystems, Linux primitives
Systems programming in Go, Rust, or C/C++
Experience with Firecracker, QEMU, or Cloud Hypervisor
Distributed storage at scale, e.g. Ceph

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