Principal Engineer, System Management – Flexible Work
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Job summary
Graphcore is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to join the System Management team and drive the development of critical interfaces used to manage system state. You will provide technical leadership, guide architecture decisions, and mentor engineers to translate broad technical goals into concrete delivery plans.
The role is hands-on, leading complex engineering initiatives, improving reliability and operational readiness, and collaborating across hardware, software, and data center
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject.
- Substantial experience designing, building and operating Linux-based infrastructure or distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership for complex engineering initiatives involving multiple teams or stakeholder groups.
- Experience influencing architecture and technical decisions across team boundaries without relying on formal authority.
- Experience translating broad technical goals into scoped plans, milestones, technical decisions, risks and delivery priorities.
- Strong experience developing RESTful APIs and programming in Go, with Bash and Python used for systems automation.
- Deep practical experience with Kubernetes, container runtimes and operating production workloads.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, source control and CI/CD technologies such as Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, GitLab, GitHub Actions and Git.
- Experience with hardware-management interfaces such as Redfish, IPMI or equivalent management systems.
- Strong Linux systems engineering, troubleshooting and operational debugging capability.
- Demonstrated ability to develop other engineers through technical mentoring, design reviews and coaching.
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to persuade, build alignment and bring stakeholders together around practical technical outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Convert agreed System Management direction into technical plans, engineering priorities and deliverable work for assigned areas.
- Provide technical leadership for architecture and design decisions, building alignment across collaborating teams and documenting important technical trade-offs.
- Act as a technical authority for assigned areas of System Management, leading the delivery of large and complex engineering initiatives and coordinating technical plans, dependencies, risks and decisions.
- Provide technical direction and mentoring to engineers working across system management, hardware lifecycle management, deployment automation and production operations.
- Take responsibility for key technical outcomes across the full software lifecycle, including design, implementation, automated testing, integration, deployment, observability and production readiness.
- Identify systemic reliability, scalability and operability issues and lead practical improvements across the platform.
- Collaborate with Hardware, Firmware, Platform Software and Datacenter Operations teams to diagnose system-level issues and improve end-to-end product behaviour.
- Improve engineering standards and working practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated testing, release safety and learning from operational incidents.
- Act as a senior technical escalation point for complex issues while creating reusable knowledge, tooling and automation that reduce future operational effort.
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Job description
Graphcore is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to join the System Management team and drive the development of critical interfaces used to manage system state. You will provide technical leadership, guide architecture decisions, and mentor engineers to translate broad technical goals into concrete delivery plans.
The role is hands-on, leading complex engineering initiatives, improving reliability and operational readiness, and collaborating across hardware, software, and data center
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