[apatheticonion]

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)

[amacneil]

I 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]

Love your product!

[amacneil]

Thanks!

[ajxs]

Speaking 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]

Google 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

[pabs3]

Some of this remote stuff might interest you:

https://www.igalia.com/jobs/open/

[pabs3]

Or https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/fsf-engineering-and-certi...

[Pepe1vo]

Not 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]

I'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]

I just tried to apply for IMC, the form on their careers page is broken. Looks like that's the first boss to defeat, haha

[lukeh]

I 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…)

[profquail]

SIG is hiring for some roles in Sydney: https://careers.sig.com/global-experienced

[gzread]

I 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.

[pabs3]

Which consultancy was that?

[gzread]

I don't remember. It was years ago.

[pabs3]

Probably SerNet or one of the Samba Commercial Support companies like Catalyst:

https://www.samba.org/samba/support/globalsupport.html

[gzread]

Might've been Catalyst. I see it's a NZ company not Australia.

[pabs3]

I think Catalyst has an Australian presence too (and UK/CA):

https://www.catalyst-au.net/