Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of highly scalable distributed systems that power OCI Networking.
• Drive the technical direction of critical platform services supporting routing, workload placement, and fleet lifecycle management.
• Partner across OCI organizations to build reliable, scalable, and operable cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking software, or systems software.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, distributed systems, and software design.
• Strong familiarity with network routing protocols; implementation experience is highly desirable.
• Experience building and operating modern CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment workflows for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience designing, building, and operating highly available, production-grade distributed services at scale.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including driving architecture, mentoring engineers, and leading cross-team technical initiatives.