Description
We are seeking a Systems Software Engineer to join our Systems Software Team, responsible for developing, debugging, and maintaining key components of the systems software operating on our supercomputing product's compute plane.
You will collaborate within a Scrumban team to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performance software capabilities that meet evolving customer needs and internal requirements.
A significant portion of the work is driven by real production and integration needs tracked through Jira,ranging from build/release and packaging failures, Linux/kernel and OS-level issues, automation and orchestration improvements, security/CAST remediation, and customer-impacting escalations.
In addition to implementing fixes, you will help identify trends, establish best practices, and raise engineering standards across the team.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, debug, and maintain systems software components that run on the compute plane of an enterprise supercomputing platform.
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues across Linux systems, services, utilities, installers, and system configuration.
- Own and resolve high-impact issues surfaced via Jira, including customer-impacting defects, stability/performance issues, and integration regressions.
- Perform deep root cause analysis, document findings clearly, and drive corrective/preventative actions to closure.
- Troubleshoot and improve USS-related delivery workflows and tools.
- Improve reliability and velocity of build and release pipelines through automation, better diagnostics, and reduction of recurring failure modes.
- Contribute to improvements in internal developer tooling used for validation, testing, and delivery.
- Build and maintain automation and orchestration solutions using technologies such as Ansible and Kubernetes.
- Strengthen operational readiness with improved logging, observability hooks, and automated verification.
- Address security-related issues including vulnerability remediation, dependency updates, and policy-driven improvements.
- Apply sound software engineering principles and testing practices to ensure stable, maintainable outcomes.
- Work effectively across teams and time zones to coordinate issue resolution, design decisions, and delivery timelines.
- Contribute to the team's best practices by staying informed on community/industry trends and helping establish standards internally.
Requirements:
- BS and/or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 8+ years of experience developing systems software.
- Strong experience with Linux.
- High proficiency in C and Python, Bash scripting.
- Experience in development of OS, Filesystem preferably on Linux OS.
- Experience with DevOps and orchestration services.
- Demonstrated commitment to sound software engineering principles.
- Experience with version control in a team environment.
- Experience with unit, functional, and test-driven development practices.
- Experience using Agile methodologies in production environments.
- Outstanding problem-solving skills and ability to work well in a cooperative development environment within and across teams.
- Solid written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document issues and solutions clearly.