Senior Systems Performance Engineer

📋 Description

• Design and build low-overhead observability infrastructure for resource usage, latency, scheduling, and health.
• Develop metrics, tracing, profiling, and analysis tools to identify performance contention.
• Improve real-time and post-event root cause analysis across CPU, memory, storage, networking.
• Partner with autonomy and platform teams to investigate crashes and latency spikes.
• Analyze embedded Linux compute platforms including OS, kernel, and hardware interactions.
• Define performance benchmarks and regression tests for onboard systems.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience debugging and optimizing Linux system performance.
• Deep understanding OS concepts: scheduling, memory, filesystems, networking, IPC.
• Experience diagnosing resource contention, latency, crashes, or throughput problems in production.
• Experience with Linux performance and tracing tools: perf, ftrace, eBPF/BPF, BCC, bpftrace, flame_graphs.
• Proficiency in C or C++.
• Experience using Python or shell scripting for automation and data analysis.
• Ability to analyze large volumes of system telemetry and distinguish root causes from symptoms.

🎁 Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision coverage.
• 401k with company match.
• Health savings accounts.
• Life insurance.
• Pet insurance.