Staff Software Engineer

RWX; North Carolina; On-site; USD 215,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

RWX is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to deliver across all product categories. This generalist role emphasizes software architecture, reliability, and problem solving over a single specialty.

You’ll influence logs UI, kernel settings, and platform engineering tasks, applying CI/CD, cloud, and Linux internals experience to build scalable systems for our dev, build, and test cloud.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with complex technical systems.
• A strong product perspective.
• Excellent writing and communication.
• Background in reliable integration testing.
• A balanced approach to AI agents, taking advantage of their velocity without offloading thinking and understanding to them.

Responsibilities

• Deliver across all product categories as a generalist engineer.
• Contribute to logs UI and kernel settings tweaks as needed.
• Apply software architecture rigor to build reliable, scalable systems.
• Collaborate across teams to improve CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and Linux internals.

Skills

Complex systems

Product perspective

Writing and communication

Reliability testing

AI agent approach

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Linux kernel concepts

Cloud platforms

Job description

About RWX

We're building the dev, build, and test cloud: the infrastructure layer that everything downstream of a code change runs on.

Our premise is that legacy CI/CD was designed for a world where a human wrote every line and waited for feedback, but that world is quickly passing by. Agents now generate enormous amounts of code and need to validate it continuously, before anyone gets a chance to review a pull request. The old platforms haven’t kept up. We built RWX using the state of the art techniques in build systems but with an eye toward making those techniques more accessible to both agents and humans.

What you’ll do

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to deliver across all of our product categories. This is a generalist role: you might be making changes to our logs UI one day and tweaking Linux kernel settings the next. We’re looking for someone with great taste for software architecture and with impeccable problem-solving skills rather than a particular skill set, but being familiar with CI/CD, cloud computing, and Linux internals will be helpful.

What we're looking for

• Significant experience with complex technical systems.
• A strong product perspective.
• Excellent writing and communication.
• A background in reliable integration testing.
• A balanced approach to AI agents, taking advantage of their velocity without offloading thinking and understanding to them.

Nice to haves

We don’t expect a single person to possess all of these attributes, but any one of the following would stand out:

• Deep experience with CI/CD and devops or platform engineering.
• Strong familiarity with Linux kernel development or Linux components like overlayfs, cgroups, and eBPF.
• A strong infrastructure background with experience in multiple clouds or racking physical servers.
• A strong social presence and an appetite for conferences, selling, and demoing with customers.
• Experience with advanced testing techniques like fuzzing and formal proofs.

How we work

We have a small team and place a lot of trust in every engineer. We expect everyone to take full ownership of the planning, execution, and release of all of their work. We use RWX to build RWX, so when something is annoying, it's annoying to us first and we fix it. We still carefully review code and do everything we can to prioritize reliability.
Salary: $215,000 - $250,000