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yeet

Real-time kernel observability with eBPF

Rust Engineer

Systems Software EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChicago, IL, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Deep systems-level experience with Linux, including debugging kernel errors and investigating the Linux kernel source tree.
  • Fluency in Rust beyond syntax, including using the borrow checker to design safe, concurrent systems.
  • Understanding of synchronization primitives, memory models, and performance trade-offs, with the ability to reason about them under real-world load.
  • Experience with or willingness to learn eBPF, perf events, and kernel instrumentation.
  • Ability to turn opaque Linux behavior into observable and explainable results.

Responsibilities

  • Build yeetd, a dynamic BPF runtime that powers on-demand observability across fleets of Linux servers.
  • Develop low-level systems software close to the Linux kernel.
  • Build tools that support engineers during incident response and observability workflows.

Desired Qualifications

  • A degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with a focus on systems or networking.
  • Hands-on experience with the Linux kernel, including contributing patches, debugging kernel modules, or building tools that live in kernel space.
  • Familiarity with low-level networking, including sockets, TCP/IP stack internals, and packet processing.
  • Prior work on extremely high-performance system software such as databases, runtimes, observability tooling, or compilers.
  • Exposure to distributed systems or large-scale infrastructure, where performance and reliability trade-offs matter.

About the Company

yeet

Real-time kernel observability with eBPF

Yeet offers a real-time system observability platform built on eBPF that lets engineers inspect Linux kernel behavior in the moment using customizable probes and policies, with JavaScript scripting. It collects kernel events via eBPF, streams live data to the browser, and stores it in a local DuckDB so you can run SQL queries; users manage probes and visualize outputs through a CLI, YPM, and a web interface, with probes executing in secure V8 isolates. Unlike traditional tools that rely on logs and metrics after the fact, Yeet provides live, kernel-level visibility and remote deployment capabilities. The goal is to give site reliability engineers and system administrators immediate answers to performance questions and enable live troubleshooting when dashboards aren’t enough.

Company size
1-10
Company stage
Early VC
Total funding
$7.8M
Headquarters
Caracas, Venezuela
Founded
2023

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