Principal Systems Software Engineer

Location: United States

Owns complex system modules and fleet automation workflows; defines integration contracts across software, firmware, and hardware. Leads deep-dive investigations for incidents and hard faults; creates durable fixes and preventive controls. Designs performance, reliability, and fault-tolerance improvements for drivers, services, and provisioning pipelines at scale. Elevates code quality via reviews, patterns, and tooling; sets standards for observability, security, and compliance. Guides platform bring-up and diagnostics; collaborates with silicon, board, and firmware partners to validate end-to-end behavior. Designs and implements firmware components integrating diverse interfaces and protocols; diagnoses cross-domain issues (firmware/hardware/OS/ bootloaders) with logic analyzers, JTAG, and emulators; participates in schematic/board reviews; leads initial board/device bring-up; develops and debugs advanced features (e.g., RAS, high-speed I/O, chipset/SoC services) across ARM, AMD, Intel, and custom ASIC/FPGA platforms.

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This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building reliable distributed systems and owning production services. You will work on technical problems involving availability, latency, throughput, correctness, fault tolerance, security, and operational excellence. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, SREs, security partners, and other OCI service teams to deliver messaging capabilities that are simple, reliable, and trusted by customers. As an IC4 engineer, you will be expected to drive projects from design through launch, make sound technical tradeoffs, raise the quality bar through code and design reviews, mentor other engineers, and continuously improve the service based on customer needs and production learnings. You should be comfortable working through ambiguity, decomposing complex problems, and delivering practical solutions for a business-critical cloud service.