Remote Product Assurance Engineer – Reliability & Chaos

Oxide Computer Company; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 247,500 - 302,500; Full time

Job summary

Oxide Computer Company is seeking a Product Assurance Engineer for a remote role to ensure the highest quality products reach customers. You will design stress tests, observe metrics, and drive chaos-testing across the stack to expose reliability gaps.

This role emphasizes cross-team collaboration and robust test automation to deliver resilient systems. Collaborate with software engineers to triage findings, verify fixes, and improve the assurance infrastructure with better scripts, harnesses,

Qualifications

• Deep familiarity troubleshooting traffic issues at different network layers and characterizing performance and reliability.
• Comfortable with low-level debugging, reading packet captures, and reasoning from raw protocol state.
• Hands-on experience with test infrastructure.
• Track record of finding non-obvious reliability bugs in complex systems.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or systems language (Python, Rust, Go) for building test harnesses and automating workload generation.
• Able to write clear bug reports, knowledge articles, and technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute workload-driven stress tests replicating production traffic patterns such as high connection-rate workloads, micro-burst traffic, large-flow saturation, multicast, and adversarial packet patterns.
• Instrument, observe, and correlate metrics that help characterize and pinpoint system issues.
• Drive chaos Monkey-style tests to simulate common hardware failure modes and control-plane outages.
• Investigate availability and reliability gaps, producing reproducible failure reports.
• Collaborate with engineers across the software stack to triage findings and verify fixes and mitigations.
• Improve the assurance infrastructure itself: scripts, harnesses, chaos tooling, and automated regression suites.

Skills

Network debugging

Test infrastructure

Bug reporting

Scripting languages

Tools

Packet captures

Test harnesses

Job description

Oxide Computer Company is seeking a Product Assurance Engineer for a remote role to ensure the highest quality products reach customers. You will design stress tests, observe metrics, and drive chaos-testing across the stack to expose reliability gaps.

This role emphasizes cross-team collaboration and robust test automation to deliver resilient systems. Collaborate with software engineers to triage findings, verify fixes, and improve the assurance infrastructure with better scripts, harnesses,