Optimization Specialist

Our company is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. We are expanding our engineering teams to include Performance Engineers who bring exceptional clarity to software performance, correctness, and efficiency.

The role will involve driving software performance and correctness in specific projects, collaborating with colleagues and community around the globe, and working on shared tools and infrastructure for performance measurement, analysis, and reporting.

Key responsibilities include strengthening test capabilities, harnesses, and pipelines, analyzing systems and code to understand performance and scalability, solving problems directly or through influence, leadership, and skills development, and reviewing code and technical designs.

• Key Skills and Qualifications:
• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics
• Demonstrable personal initiatives to measure and improve performance, efficiency, and correctness in code
• Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
• Leadership and commitment to skills development and mentorship
• Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives

Benefits:

We offer a distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person, a personal learning and development budget of $2000 per year, annual compensation review, recognition rewards, annual holiday leave, maternity and paternity leave, Employee Assistance Programme, opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

About the Company:

Our platform is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few office-based roles.

Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

This is a career path for perfectionists and precision artists. Whether you have a particular language focus - C, C++, Rust, Golang, Python, Java, Flutter-Dart, or others - or a particular love of the kernel or hardware or CPU instruction set, whether you see yourself as driving perceived user experience through performance or optimizing the efficiency of data centers to reduce carbon footprint, this process is the best way to find a role that speaks to your precision, rigour, insight, and drive.

Location: We have teams in every time zone, and can accommodate applications from almost any country.

Nice-to-Have Skills we Value:

• Low-level CPU insights and assembly language - understanding cache, registers, vectorization, memory
• Kernel performance insights - scheduling, context switching, hardware acceleration
• Distributed systems performance insights - tracing, debugging
• Compiler level performance insights - profile-guided optimization, inlining, assembler
• Runtime performance insights - Golang, Python, JVM, NodeJS
• Database performance evaluation - plans, indexing, data modelling, tracing, monitoring
• Web browser performance insights - JS, web frameworks, tracing, CSS
• Performance measurement tooling - profiling, eBPF, D-Trace, flamegraphs
• Benchmarks and performance measurement tools - Phoronix Test Suite, others
• Test harnesses and capabilities in C, C++, Rust, Python, Golang, NodeJS, JavaScript