Position: Solaris Networking/kernel contract available - RTP area
Location: RTP area

Details:
Folks, A friend of mine is VP, Engineering at a startup called BlueStripe (bluestripe.com). They’re looking for a Solaris kernel/networking person for a contract. Here’s his commentary:

We’re taking our agent technologies to older Solaris because, damn it, the stuff just won’t die in the market. I’d congratulate you for that, if it wasn’t such a pain in my ass.

The contract work we need is for someone who is intimately familiar with the internals of the Solaris kernel - specifically the networking stack. Our agent monitors the protocol stack (very near the user-space API) as well as process creation/destruction. We deploy our agent as both kernel module and user-space service, so what the kernel module doesn’t provide (e.g., commodity metrics, /proc stats, etc.), we get from user-space. We currently have Sol10 support via dTrace, but the library is having some significant scaling problems, so we’re moving to a native kernel module, hopefully taking the new 8/9 module and making it work in 10 as well. My gut says the protocol stack hasn’t changed much since 8, but it seems like threading changes may be an issue.

I don’t have a formal req written up for this, but the paragraph above is probably good enough to get the right people interested.

Contact:

You’re welcome to contact Shane directly at
careers AT bluestripe DOT com
BlueStripe is also looking for QA folks. See
bluestripe.com/careers/open-positions.html