System Software Engineer, Consumer Devices

Details

Location: San Francisco, California. Hybrid schedule with four days onsite per week.

The Consumer Products team builds foundational platform software that enables reliable, secure, and performant products. The team works across system layers and partners closely with adjacent engineering groups to deliver robust capabilities from concept through launch.

The role focuses on designing, implementing, and debugging core platform components and the pipelines that build and update system images. You will work across operating system layers, with an emphasis on performance, security, deep system debugging, and production-grade systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and debug system-level components and services across kernel and user space.
• Configure and maintain OS platform services, including init, services, networking, security policies, and related tooling.
• Build and operate image and update pipelines, ensuring reliability, reproducibility, and rollback safety.
• Instrument and analyze performance using profiling and tracing; optimize CPU, memory, I/O, and power usage.
• Own platform observability and reliability, including logging, crash capture, watchdogs, and diagnostics.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define interfaces and deliver end-to-end features.
• Establish strong engineering practices, including code review, CI, reproducible builds, and release management.
• Partner with external suppliers to support builds and deployments.

Requirements

• Experience shipping production systems software on modern operating systems.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and a scripting language.
• Familiarity with OS internals, including concurrency, memory management, filesystems, networking, and power management.
• Strong systems debugging skills using debuggers, tracers, profilers, and logs across kernel and user-space boundaries.
• Understanding of platform service and interface configuration, with the ability to translate requirements into stable, well-documented APIs.
• Fluency in user-space foundations, including service management, IPC, networking, packaging, and automation.
• Experience building platform images and designing update mechanisms for reliability and security.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to platform security, including secure boot, sandboxing, mandatory access controls, and attestation.
• Experience with graphics/media, hardware acceleration, or high-throughput data paths.
• Familiarity with connectivity stacks and network configuration.
• Experience with observability and diagnostics in distributed or resource-constrained environments.
• Experience working on open-source platforms or contributing to systems projects.

Benefits

• Base salary of $293,000–$325,000 per year, plus equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health and dependent care expenses, as well as commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and paid office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.