Principal Systems Software Engineer

Server firmware connects hardware capability to cloud reliability. At OCI, you will work where those layers meet—developing BIOS/UEFI firmware, investigating challenging platform failures, and improving how firmware is tested, deployed, and maintained across our infrastructure. We are building a systems firmware team in Bengaluru and are looking for a Principal Engineer with deep, hands-on expertise in server BIOS/UEFI. You will own complex engineering problems across firmware, hardware, and operating systems, delivering changes that improve platform initialization, reliability, performance, security, and recovery. Your initial focus will be engineering improvements for platforms already operating in our fleet. You will use production findings to identify design weaknesses, develop and validate firmware fixes, extend automated testing, and eliminate recurring failure modes. Success means delivering durable improvements that reduce failures and the need for manual intervention. You will also participate in an India daytime on-call rotation, complementing US engineering teams. This responsibility connects your engineering work directly to how platforms behave in production and includes incident investigation, mitigation, and coordinated handoffs. As the team grows, its scope is expected to expand into new server and GPU platform development. You will have opportunities to collaborate with silicon suppliers, BIOS vendors, and ODM/JDM partners, including Taiwan-based manufacturers, on firmware integration, platform bring-up, validation, and production readiness. This role offers the opportunity to help shape a new team’s engineering practices while remaining deeply involved in design, code, and complex technical investigations. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only IN: Hiring Range in INR from: 2,548,000 to 4,368,000 per annum. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only IN: Hiring Range in INR from: 2,548,000 to 4,368,000 per annum. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. As part of Oracle’s onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, India-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.