Staff Software Engineer, Runtime

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain filesystem and container runtime components.
• Investigate and fix correctness, performance, and stability in the filesystem layer across macOS, Windows, Linux.
• Work on VirtioFS, OverlayFS, and related filesystem tech to boost AI workloads.
• Contribute to containerd integration and OCI container lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with peers to evolve the runtime architecture as requirements grow.
• Engage with the open source community on filesystem and runtime projects.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in systems programming focusing on filesystems or container runtimes.
• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering in backend, infra, or platform engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep understanding of filesystem semantics: POSIX, VFS, FUSE, VirtioFS, overlays.
• Experience with container technologies: OCI image spec, containerd, runc, or equivalent.
• Go and/or Rust; comfortable reading/modifying C where needed.

🎁 Benefits

• Freedom and flexibility to fit your life.
• Whaleness Days and year-end break.
• Home office setup; comfortable while you work.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave after 6 months of employment.
• Technology stipend: $100 USD net/month.
• PTO, training stipend, equity and Docker swag.