Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Waabi

• 5+ years software engineering or systems/performance engineering experience (BS in CS/EE or related), with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of complex projects
• Proficient in at least one of: Python, Rust, C/C++; strong CS fundamentals and system design skills
• Hands-on with Linux internals (CPU scheduling, memory, I/O, networking) and perf tooling (perf, eBPF, flamegraphs, tracing frameworks)
• Experience with Kubernetes, microservices, and distributed systems; comfort building production services and pipelines
• Proven track record of clear communication, writing design docs, and leading cross-functional efforts
• Bonus:

Desirable

• Design and lead the architecture and development of Waabi’s monitoring and observability stack, used to monitor the health and performance of cloud and on-prem environments
• Develop and extend workloads and benchmarks (compute, storage, network, ML/AI) and integrate stress, chaos, and regression tests to validate hardware and platform choices
• Analyze and optimize end-to-end performance across hardware, firmware, Linux kernel, runtimes, and distributed services using advanced profiling tools (perf, eBPF, flamegraphs, tracing frameworks)
• Build automation and observability tooling (Go/Python/Java, Kubernetes/Docker) for CI/CD-based performance regression detection, telemetry, alerting, and anomaly detection
• Work with client teams to support their applications’ observability requirements
• Influence system architecture and tooling decisions that improve how Waabi builds, monitors, and scales its infrastructure
• Drive execution and quality, writing design docs, setting milestones, mentoring ICs, and communicating insights and results to stakeholders and leadership