# System Software

Skill · Software Development and Engineering Practices

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/system-software

Software designed to manage and operate computer hardware and provide a platform for running application software, including operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS), device drivers, utilities, and firmware. It is distinct from application software, which performs specific end-user tasks, and is developed primarily by OS vendors and hardware manufacturers. System software professionals work on kernels, compilers, and low-level utilities that other software depends on.

Related skills: [Operating Systems](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/operating-systems), [System Programming](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/system-programming)

## Open roles requiring System Software (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.