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Open nowPosted 220 days ago

Senior Software Engineer Runtime Internals

Hud.io5 open roles

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<h2>About the Role</h2>

We’re building a runtime code sensor that operates where most tools don’t: inside running applications. Our goal is to give engineers and AI agents real-time, high-fidelity visibility into how code actually behaves in production – under real load, real traffic, and real failures.

This role blends deep systems engineering with applied research. You’ll dive into runtime internals, explore undocumented behavior, design low-overhead instrumentation, and turn research insights into production-grade components that safely run in customer environments. One day you might analyze GC or JIT behavior; the next, design tracing mechanisms that survive real-world distributed systems.

If you get excited about runtime internals, enjoy breaking (and fixing) complex systems, think like both a researcher and a production engineer, and care deeply about performance, safety, and correctness – you’ll feel right at home here. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for engineers who want to ship technology that engineers actually trust to run in their most critical services.

<h2>Experience</h2>

  • 5+ years of hands-on research or development roles.
  • Deep expertise in at least one runtime (Node.js, Python, or Java/JVM), including understanding of internals (event loop, GC, tracing hooks, bytecode/JIT, etc.).
  • Hands-on experience building in-process production components (SDKs, agents, profilers, monitoring/security tools) that must be safe, stable, and backward-compatible.
  • Strong performance engineering skills – profiling CPU/memory, avoiding overhead, understanding how instrumentation affects runtime behavior.
  • Defensive engineering mindset – experience designing systems that fail-open, degrade gracefully, protect the host application, and never introduce instability.
  • Track record debugging production issues (latency, memory leaks, regressions, deadlocks) in real-world distributed systems.
  • Solid understanding of modern backend architectures – experience with microservices, distributed systems, async and event-driven patterns, containers/orchestration (Docker/K8s), cloud runtimes, and the performance or reliability challenges they introduce.
  • Proven ability to ship stable, resilient, maintainable systems in production.

<h2>Engineering Excellence / Mindset</h2>

  • Ability to anticipate technical risks, identify bottlenecks, and drive long-term engineering improvements.
  • Takes ownership of code quality, documentation, reliability, and observability.
  • Comfortable working with product teams to balance technical trade-offs with user and business needs.
  • Autonomous and proactive; capable of mentoring others or leading technical initiatives.

<h2>Bonus Points</h2>

  • Background in security agents, observability tools, or other components deployed directly into customer environments.
  • Experience with APM agents, JVM agents, Python tracing, V8 internals, or other instrumentation/profiling frameworks.
  • Experience with telemetry systems (metrics, tracing, logging) including batching, rate-limiting, and safe data collection.
  • Familiarity with sampling techniques, bytecode manipulation, eBPF, or low-overhead tracing.
  • Exposure to safety-critical or high-throughput environments where reliability and minimal overhead are mandatory.
  • Contributions to open-source instrumentation, tracing, or internals-related projects.

<h2>Requirements</h2>

  • This is a full-time on-site position located in Tel Aviv.
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment is essential.
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