Steel Wool Studios
Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure
Toronto · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 118 days ago
Distributed SystemsGitAWSGCPCloud PlatformsCI/CDLinuxAgentic AI
About the role
- Staring at kernel traces to performance engineer our Sessions API
- Orchestrating millions of browser sessions across regions with sub-second cold starts
- Working with VMs, proxies, caches, task queues, and orchestration systems
Responsibilities
- Steel is building open-source browser infrastructure for AI agents and apps.
- Backed by world-class investors, we're building a small, highly motivated, and talent-dense team that's shaping the future of how humans interact with the internet.
Requirements
- 4+ years writing high-quality, production code
- Strong knowledge of OS foundations
- Track record in performance optimization (we love a good "shaved 5ms" story)
- Strong knowledge of OS foundations - Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc
Nice to have
- Introduce us to a candidate who joins Steel, and we'll send you $10,000
Company info
- We are looking for strong engineers with experience and interest in designing, building, and maintaining the high-performance systems that make up our platform.
- With over 7,000 GitHub stars, dozens of paying customers, and millions of sessions served monthly, we grew our platform 50x in 2025 purely through word-of-mouth and our open-source community.
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