Steel Wool Studios

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.

This listing is sourced directly from Steel Wool Studios's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.