Comment by 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