Principal Software Engineer

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more. As are part of Core Infrastructure within OCI, our mission is to maximize customer choice and transparency while delivering high-value cloud solutions. We are at the strategic center of OCI’s most ambitious projects—architecting and delivering next-generation platforms and frameworks to empower developers and support groundbreaking cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale.
• Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest-availability and most demanding workloads.
• Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure.
• Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps.
• Deliver Cloud Infrastructure solutions for one of the two new OCI services: Key value store is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service. It delivers fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability, automatically handling infrastructure management, capacity provisioning, security, and backups. It is designed to support high-volume, real-time workloads, consistently providing single-digit millisecond latency for both reads and writes, regardless of scale.
• Develop and lead the software design and development for new major data-plane components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure.
• Take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures.
• Perform software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
• Mentor senior engineers, drive strategy, and be responsible for cross-team alignment and delivery of mission-critical services.
• Balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements.
• Understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• More than 6 years’ of experience delivering distributed, mission-critical cloud services at large scale
• Cloud platform expertise (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Python, Java), DevOps & automation, networking, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), security, virtualization, database management, and understanding concepts like Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
• Comfortable with complex, swiftly evolving software development environments
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes
• Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams
• Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments
• Demonstrates strong mentorship abilities, effectively guiding and developing teams while aligning engineers with shared objectives

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

Pay

Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 - $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Schedule

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level

IC4

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives. True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs. We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States. Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.