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Principal Systems Software Engineer

Oracle
Bengaluru, IND
Full-time
Senior · 6+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Key responsibilities

  • Develop, debug, test, and maintain Linux kernel code and patches.
  • Review kernel changes for correctness, maintainability, performance, and regression risk.
  • Assess security vulnerabilities, including CVEs, and backport, validate, and deliver fixes.
  • Investigate kernel crashes, performance bottlenecks, and production issues using debugging and tracing tools.
  • Collaborate with engineering, security, and operations teams to prioritize issues and deliver timely resolutions.
  • Contribute to follow-the-sun operational support through clear documentation and effective handoffs across regions.
  • Improve testing, automation, and engineering workflows to support a growing kernel workload.
  • Owns complex system modules and fleet automation workflows; defines integration contracts across software, firmware, and hardware.
  • Leads deep-dive investigations into 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 through 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 spanning firmware, hardware, operating systems, and bootloaders using logic analyzers, JTAG, and emulators.
  • Participates in schematic and board reviews; leads initial board and device bring-up.
  • Develops and debugs advanced features—including RAS, high-speed I/O, and chipset/SoC services—across ARM, AMD, Intel, and custom ASIC/FPGA platforms.
  • Design, develop, and maintain complex system software modules for managing, monitoring, and provisioning kernel and operating system software for computer servers, storage, networking, and GPU subsystems in hyperscale environment.
  • Utilizes advanced knowledge to design, develop, and deploy software layers and tooling to automate hardware provisioning and onboarding of servers to large-scale fleet.
  • Play a significant role in platform bring-up, firmware updates, platform-level diagnostics, and complex cross-layer debugging.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex issues across software, firmware, and hardware layers, working in DevOps and incident response paradigms to maintain reliability and availability.
  • Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.
  • Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.
  • Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
  • Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.
  • Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.
  • Develops fixes for identified issues.
  • Implements comprehensive software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, sharing work with manager and/or lead upon completion.
  • Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.
  • Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration. Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
  • Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion. Recommends project or design scope.
  • Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.
  • Contributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.
  • Collaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns with software architecture.
  • Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
  • Occasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.
  • Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.
  • May provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues.
  • Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
  • Provides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
  • Identifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.
  • Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad reaching/scoped maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).
  • Collaborates with the team and externally to follow development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.
  • Participates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development, independently.
  • Demonstrates and shares advanced knowledge of industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.
  • Implements complex secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.
  • Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results with manager upon completion.
  • Drives improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
  • Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately sized project or initiative.
  • Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.
  • Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
  • Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs.
  • Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
  • Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices.
  • Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions.
  • Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.
  • Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices.
  • Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills.
  • Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.
  • Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders.
  • Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.
  • Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.
  • Core Responsibilities
  • Planning & Execution:

Required qualifications

  • Strong proficiency in C and practical experience developing or maintaining Linux kernel software.
  • Solid understanding of operating system fundamentals, including memory management, concurrency, synchronization, and process scheduling.
  • Experience diagnosing complex systems issues using crash dumps, logs, tracing, and debugging tools.
  • Familiarity with kernel patch review, backporting, testing, and regression analysis.
  • Experience using Git and collaborating on large codebases.
  • Ability to independently own engineering tasks, communicate technical findings clearly, and work effectively with distributed teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience of 6+ years.

Preferred qualifications

  • Contributions to the upstream Linux kernel or other systems software projects.
  • Experience with enterprise Linux distributions and kernel maintenance across multiple versions.
  • Experience assessing and remediating kernel CVEs.
  • Knowledge of virtualization, networking, storage, or device drivers.
  • Experience supporting production infrastructure and building automated kernel validation tools.
  • What success looks like
  • You deliver well-tested kernel changes, resolve complex issues, and help maintain timely security patching. Your work strengthens kernel reliability and supports effective collaboration and operational coverage across regions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Systems Software Development:
  • Software Development and Coding:
  • Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:
  • Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:
  • Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:
  • Development Operations - System Maintenance:
  • Core Responsibilities Planning & Execution:
  • Collaboration & Partnership:
  • Problem Solving:
  • Continuous Learning:
  • Continuous Improvement:
  • Performance and Development:

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