Software Engineer

Project Description:

• We are building a team to work on the FreeBSD Performance Monitoring Counter (PMC) framework, including hwmon, libpmc, and pmcstat.
• The project includes development, testing, and cooperation with the upstream FreeBSD open-source community to integrate new features into FreeBSD.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and improve parts of the FreeBSD PMC framework (hwmon, libpmc, pmcstat)
• Investigate and fix performance and monitoring issues in the FreeBSD kernel
• Work with the upstream FreeBSD community and integrate changes into mainline FreeBSD
• Support performance monitoring tools for modern AMD (Zen era) hardware
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 7 years of experience in relevant technical areas
• Strong knowledge of FreeBSD kernel architecture and internals
• Excellent C programming skills
• Strong understanding of x86 microarchitecture
• Very good knowledge of performance monitoring on modern x86 systems

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Previous contributions to upstream FreeBSD kernel code
• Experience with AMD Zen performance monitoring technologies (PMC, IBS, etc.)