Software Developer ; OS Kernel
Listed on 2026-01-13
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IT/Tech
Job Description
Location:
Burlington, MA or Santa Clara, CA
The ideal candidate will have a high level of experience in device driver development and debugging Linux OS related issues. In addition, the candidate should have working knowledge of interaction between the OS, BIOS and Baseboard Management Controller. Should have strong Linux internals knowledge and deep experience analyzing kernel crash dumps using tools such as the crash utility. Should have good understanding of PCI initialization, enumeration and understanding of RAS events both in the CPU and PCI subsystems.
Knowledge of Oracle Engineered systems/Exadata stack and working with Linux to fine tune performance of the Exadata stack.
As a member of the software engineering division, you will be responsible to work with the hardware and the platform software teams (BIOS, BMC) in bringing up new releases of the Oracle Linux and Ubuntu based operating systems. You will need good understanding of Intel, AMD and ARM processor architecture to help debug issues seen either at the BIOS or the Linux OS level.
You are expected to debug issues at any level in the OS boot process including PCI, NVMe and network drivers. You are expected to know how to evaluate any CPU and IO performance related issues and bottlenecks especially when the Oracle Exadata stack/Engineered system configuration. You must have a very good working knowledge of C programming and ability to review kernel patches related to various Linux subsystem, including writing automating unit tests (in scripting languages like bash or python).
You will be working cross functionally with the HW, BIOS and BMC teams to resolve issues found during bring up and during quality assurance testing. An ideal candidate would have experience with Windows and VMware certifications including working with these vendors. As an OCI engineer, you will be required to be on call periodically to deal with customer escalation and field issues.
Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US:
Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment.
Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job…
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