Principal Systems Software Engineer

Description

• Designs and delivers features for provisioning, onboarding, and platform services; owns small-to-medium components end-to-end.

• Performs cross-layer debugging spanning kernel/user space, firmware interfaces, and hardware signals; identifies mitigations and root causes.

• Monitors and tunes performance, capacity, and error budgets for owned services or drivers; adds observability and guardrails.

• Enhances automation for fleet operations; improves CI/CD, validation, and conformance tests.

• Participates in schematic/board reviews to surface firmware/software implications; supports early bring-up with targeted diagnostics.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Systems Software Development:

• Design, develop, and maintain standard and non-standard system software modules for managing, monitoring, and provisioning computer servers, storage, networking, and GPU subsystems in a hyperscale environment.

• Independently design, develop, and deploy software layers and tooling to automate hardware provisioning and onboarding of servers to large-scale fleet.

• Integrate and validate system firmware with hardware components. Collaborate on platform bring-up, firmware updates, platform-level diagnostics, and cross-layer debugging.

• Diagnose and resolve issues across software, firmware, and hardware layers, working in DevOps and incident response paradigms to maintain reliability and availability.

• Work closely with platform engineering, operations, firmware development, silicon/board vendors, and data center teams to support and troubleshoot hardware bring-up, provisioning, and lifecycle operations.

Software Development and Coding:

• Designs software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to achieve business and operational goals, independently.

• Adheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle.

• Utilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code.

• Leads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements.

• Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues. Develops fixes for identified issues.

• Implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, ensuring review by manager and/or lead throughout the process.

• Exercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding.

• Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.

• Implements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

• Designs and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture.

• Develops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices.

• Collaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture.

• Implements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

• Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions.

• May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently.

• Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.

• Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.

• Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently.

• Investigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

• Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards.

• Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.

• Keeps up-to-date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.

• Implements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

• Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

• Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements.

• Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.

• Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships.

• Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.

Problem Solving:

• Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate.

• Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors.

• Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.

Continuous Learning:

• Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices.

• Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills.

• Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.

Continuous Improvement:

• Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team.

• Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

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