Oxide Computer Company
Product Assurance Engineer
$275K
Remote / Emeryville, CA · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
About the job
Tests Oxide’s systems under realistic network workloads and simulated failures to uncover reliability issues, verify fixes, and improve test infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design and run workload-driven stress tests and chaos tests that simulate hardware failures and control plane outages.
- Instrument and correlate metrics, investigate reliability gaps, and write reproducible failure reports.
- Work with engineers to triage findings, verify fixes, and improve testing tools and regression suites.
What they ask for
- Deep familiarity with troubleshooting network traffic across layers and characterizing network data-path performance and reliability.
- Comfort with low-level debugging, packet captures, and reasoning from raw protocol state.
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Rust, or Go for building test harnesses and automating workloads.
- Track record of finding non-obvious reliability bugs in complex systems.
Pay
$275,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Rust, Go
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