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As an Australian who was just made redundant from a role that involved this type of low level programming - I love working on these these kinds of challenges.
by apatheticonion 7mo ago
As an Australian who was just made redundant from a role that involved this type of low level programming - I love working on these these kinds of challenges.
I'm saddened that the job market in Australia is largely React CRUD applications and that it's unlikely I will find a role that lets me leverage my niche skill set (which is also my hobby)
- ajxs 7mo agoSpeaking as an Australian that works on React CRUD applications because there's nothing else in the market, I've been reading through this thread thinking the exact same thing.
- apatheticonion 7mo agoGoogle had some position open working on the kernel for ChromeOS, and Microsoft had some positions working on data center network drivers. I applied for both and got ghosted, haha. I also saw a government role as a security researcher. Involves reverse engineering, ghidra and that sort of thing. Super awesome - but the pay is extremely uncompetitive. Such a shame. Other than that, the most interesting roles are in finance (like HFT) - where you need to juggle memory allocations, threads and use C++ (hoping I can pitch Rust but unlikely). Sadly they have a reputation of having pretty rough cultures, uncompetitive salaries and it's all in-office
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- Pepe1vo 7mo agoNot sure if it's the domain you're interested in, but there are quite a few HFT firms with offices in Australia. The one I know of (IMC trading) does a lot of low level stuff like this and is currently hiring.
- apatheticonion 7mo agoI'm actually looking at HFT companies. Hoping I find one that allows remote working - but looks like there are basically no remote roles going at the moment
- apatheticonion 7mo agoI just tried to apply for IMC, the form on their careers page is broken. Looks like that's the first boss to defeat, haha
- gzread 7mo agoI have a relative in Australia who was hired by some type of consultancy to work on Samba, but I don't know what work he was doing.
- amacneil 7mo agoI know this isn’t who’s hiring thread, but we are hiring in AU for low-level data processing and have interesting performance challenges. Link in bio.
- maxwindiff 7mo agoLove your product!
- amacneil 7mo agoThanks!
- profquail 7mo agoSIG is hiring for some roles in Sydney: https://careers.sig.com/global-experienced https://careers.sig.com/global-experienced
- pabs3 7mo agoSome of this remote stuff might interest you: https://www.igalia.com/jobs/open/ https://www.igalia.com/jobs/open/
- pabs3 7mo agoOr https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/fsf-engineering-and-certification-manager https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/fsf-engineering-and-certi...
- lukeh 7mo agoI hear you. Actually I read this thread because we’re using jemalloc in an embedded product. The only way I found to work on interesting problems here was to work for myself. (Having said that I think Apple might have some security research in Canberra? Years ago there was LinuxCare there and a lot of smart people. But that was in 2003…)