Principal Software Development Engineer (IC4) - Network Region Build (NRB)

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain production software supporting OCI network deployment and lifecycle management.
• Build and evolve engineering platforms, APIs, automation services, and operational systems that enable OCI’s global network infrastructure.
• Own software solutions throughout their lifecycle, from architecture and implementation to deployment, operations, and continuous improvement.
• Develop scalable automation using modern programming languages and software engineering practices.
• Partner with Network Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Network Automation teams to transform operational challenges into scalable software solutions.
• Design and implement resilient, observable, and highly available platform services.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, deployment workflows, and release processes.
• Troubleshoot production software, infrastructure, and networking issues across distributed systems.
• Lead technical design discussions and contribute to the long-term architecture of NRB engineering platforms.
• Develop technical documentation, engineering standards, runbooks, and operational best practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software development, testing, debugging, documentation, and operational workflows while applying sound engineering judgment and validating all outputs.
• Mentor engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify operations through software and automation.

Required Qualifications

• Software Engineering Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software engineering experience in Python, Java, Go, or Rust.
• Experience designing scalable APIs, distributed systems, and service-oriented architectures.
• Design software architectures that emphasize modularity, extensibility, maintainability, and long-term operational sustainability.
• Experience building and operating production engineering platforms.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern software development practices.
• Experience supporting Linux-based production environments.
• Experience designing highly available, resilient, and observable systems.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Oracle AI, GitHub Copilot, Codex, ChatGPT Enterprise, or similar technologies to improve software development, automation, documentation, and engineering productivity.
• Infrastructure Engineering and Networking: Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, and DHCP. Experience with hyperscale cloud, data center, or service provider networking environments. Familiarity with Ethernet switching platforms, network fabrics, optical networking, and large-scale infrastructure deployments. Experience with network automation technologies such as YANG, OpenConfig, NETCONF, gNMI, or similar frameworks. Understanding of infrastructure observability, telemetry, monitoring, and operational analytics.

Preferred Experience

• Building and operating hyperscale cloud infrastructure.
• Developing software for infrastructure automation, platform engineering, or developer platforms.
• Experience designing workflow orchestration systems, distributed state machines, or long-running infrastructure automation.
• Supporting AI or GPU data center deployments.
• Designing and maintaining engineering platforms used by large operational organizations.
• Root cause analysis and production incident response.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management.
• Vendor collaboration and platform integration.
• Driving engineering excellence through automation and continuous improvement.