Principal Systems Software Engineer
Oracle
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- How would you design an API for a feature you have worked on?
- What do you do when a production issue happens on your code?
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Practise the Principal Systems Software Engineer at Oracle interview free →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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