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 Vantage Compute swag.