{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"07d46edd8f3fb968cea40817","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/07d46edd8f3fb968cea40817","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/07d46edd8f3fb968cea40817","title":"Principal Systems Software Engineer","description":"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.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nSystems Software Development:\nDesign, develop, and maintain complex system software modules for managing, monitoring, and provisioning computer servers, storage, networking, and GPU subsystems in hyperscale environment.\nUtilizes advanced knowledge to design, develop, and deploy software layers and tooling to automate hardware provisioning and onboarding of servers to large-scale fleet.\nPlay a significant role in platform bring-up, firmware updates, platform-level diagnostics, and complex cross-layer debugging.\nDiagnose and resolve complex issues across software, firmware, and hardware layers, working in DevOps and incident response paradigms to maintain reliability and availability.\nSoftware Development and Coding:\nDesigns software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.\nAdheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.\nUtilizes 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.\nLeads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.\nConducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.\nDevelops fixes for identified issues.\nImplements 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.\nConducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.\nTroubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration. Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.\nSoftware Architecture - Software System Structural Design:\nImplements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion. Recommends project or design scope.\nProvides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.\nContributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.\nCollaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns with software architecture.\nImplements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.\nOccasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.\nIssue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:\nCollaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.\nMay provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues.\nAdvocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.\nProvides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.\nIdentifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.\nInvestigates and troubleshoots complex and broad reaching/scoped maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).\nPractices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:\nCollaborates with the team and externally to follow development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.\nParticipates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development, independently.\nDemonstrates and shares advanced knowledge of industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.\nImplements complex secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.\nDevelopment Operations - System Maintenance:\nPerforms periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results with manager upon completion.\nDrives improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.\n\nCore Responsibilities\nPlanning & Execution:\nManages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately sized project or initiative.\nEfficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.\nCollaboration & Partnership:\nCollaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.\nLeverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs.\nSupports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.\nProblem Solving:\nIdentifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices.\nProactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions.\nReviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.\nContinuous Learning:\nPursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices.\nProactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills.\nCoaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.\nContinuous Improvement:\nDevelops 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.\nSolicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.\nPerformance and Development:\nContributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.","company":"Oracle","rawCompany":"oracle","city":"Denver","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-14T13:34:12.276Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Principal Systems Software Engineer","description":"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.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nSystems Software Development:\nDesign, develop, and maintain complex system software modules for managing, monitoring, and provisioning computer servers, storage, networking, and GPU subsystems in hyperscale environment.\nUtilizes advanced knowledge to design, develop, and deploy software layers and tooling to automate hardware provisioning and onboarding of servers to large-scale fleet.\nPlay a significant role in platform bring-up, firmware updates, platform-level diagnostics, and complex cross-layer debugging.\nDiagnose and resolve complex issues across software, firmware, and hardware layers, working in DevOps and incident response paradigms to maintain reliability and availability.\nSoftware Development and Coding:\nDesigns software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.\nAdheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.\nUtilizes 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.\nLeads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.\nConducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.\nDevelops fixes for identified issues.\nImplements 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.\nConducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.\nTroubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration. Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.\nSoftware Architecture - Software System Structural Design:\nImplements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion. Recommends project or design scope.\nProvides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.\nContributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.\nCollaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns with software architecture.\nImplements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.\nOccasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.\nIssue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:\nCollaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.\nMay provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues.\nAdvocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.\nProvides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.\nIdentifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.\nInvestigates and troubleshoots complex and broad reaching/scoped maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).\nPractices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:\nCollaborates with the team and externally to follow development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.\nParticipates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development, independently.\nDemonstrates and shares advanced knowledge of industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.\nImplements complex secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.\nDevelopment Operations - System Maintenance:\nPerforms periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results with manager upon completion.\nDrives improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.\n\nCore Responsibilities\nPlanning & Execution:\nManages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately sized project or initiative.\nEfficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.\nCollaboration & Partnership:\nCollaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.\nLeverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs.\nSupports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.\nProblem Solving:\nIdentifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices.\nProactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions.\nReviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.\nContinuous Learning:\nPursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices.\nProactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills.\nCoaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.\nContinuous Improvement:\nDevelops 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.\nSolicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.\nPerformance and Development:\nContributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.","datePosted":"2026-08-14T13:34:12.276Z","dateModified":"2026-08-14T13:34:12.276Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Oracle","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Denver","addressRegion":"CO","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"07d46edd8f3fb968cea40817"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/07d46edd8f3fb968cea40817"}}