Staff System Engineer

Support Revolution; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Supermicro in San Jose, CA, is seeking a Staff System Engineer to join our Engineering team. You will support, test, and validate server/storage system level products, configure deployments, troubleshoot performance, and help drive reliability across data center solutions.

The role emphasizes automation of the software lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration with product managers, sales engineers, and customers to deliver scalable, high-performance systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in EE or CE with strong server product experience.
• 8+ years in system engineering, preferably on server/storage products.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD, cloud platforms, scripting, and monitoring.
• Willing to travel internationally/domestically.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop enterprise benchmarks for server/storage systems.
• Execute benchmark tests and build proofs of concept.
• Collaborate with product managers to draft technical marketing materials.
• Automate development and deployment pipelines and CI/CD.
• Provide networking knowledge to customers and cross-functional teams.

Skills

DevOps

System Administration

Cloud Operations

Site Reliability Engineering

CI/CD Tools

Monitoring & Logging

Networking & Security

Scripting & Automation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in EE/CE

Tools

AMI BIOS/OS concepts

Benchmark tools

Job description

Location: San Jose, California, United States

About Supermicro:

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

Job Summary:

The Staff System Engineer position provides an extraordinary opportunity support our Engineering team. You will support, test and validate server/storage system level products. This role will also configure, deploy, troubleshoot, validate server/storage performance and application solutions. This position will be located in San Jose, CA.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Includes the following essential duties and responsibilities (other duties may also be assigned):

• Define and develop application benchmarks based on enterprise computing requirements, generic server architecture, hardware key components, examples include Intel/AMD/Nvidia platform architecture, CPU interface, memory(DDR and LPDDR..etc) interface, PCIe interface, flashed based storage (SAS, SATA, and NVMe) interface.
• Execute benchmark testing and build proof of concepts based on latest data center technologies and Supermicro server products such as the Supermicro SuperServers
• Work with product managers and system engineers to draft technical marketing presentations and white papers for online publications and industry event promotional activities
• Proactively engage in learning and researching new technologies and products to propose new Proof of Concepts
• Work with sales and customers to provide networking solution and technical knowledge
• Work with cross function team build and maintain CI/CD Pipelines
• Using tool to Monitor, Logging, and Incident Response
• Primarily revolve around automating, streamlining, and maintaining the software development and deployment lifecycle to enable faster, more reliable software releases

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master's degree in EE, CE with minimum of 8 years system engineering experiences in server products is preferred
• 3-5+ years of hands‑on experience in DevOps, System Administration, Cloud Operations, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Strong Knowledge in CI/CD Tools, Cloud Platforms, Scripting & Automation, Monitoring & Logging, Networking & Security, OS Management.
• Strong knowledge in server architecture and AMI BIOS/OS concept, and knowledge in distributed computing is a plus
• Knowledge in benchmarks(FIO/IOMeter/HammerDB), PCIe/SATA/SATA/memory interface protocol, and database.
• International/domestic travel

Salary Range

$160,000 - $185,000

The salary offered will depend on several factors, including your location, level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as participation in bonus and equity award programs.

EEO Statement

Supermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.