Senior Principal Software Developer

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. At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We’re embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as canonical implementation of core components for data planes. We are hoping to enhance engineering efficiency by concentrating our expertise on building low level systems with high performance that can be adopted by our core cloud services across OCI.

Responsibilities

• Envision, collaborate with executives for investment and drive the software design and development for new major data-plane components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure.
• Define the foundations for the next generation of OCI data-planes, making deep architectural changes calls as an outstanding builder and technical leader with an established industry track record of success in leading large cloud scale projects.
• Perform software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
• Work with Engineering Managers and TPMs, and provide direct guidance to junior team members.
• Balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements.
• Automate and instrument your service to make life easier for other developers and motivate your teams to make both process and service improvements.
• Instill a culture of high quality and customer focus with operational excellence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
• Strategic technical guidance to senior leadership, influencing org-wide goals and driving alignment across initiatives.
• Strong experience of C/C++ and open to work on Rust.
• Experience in low-level and performance-critical system level design and service development.
• Working experience with some of the following technologies: High performance distributed storage, Write-Ahead Logging (WAL), Indexing strategies (B-tree, LSM tree), data partitioning/sharding, Raft, Paxos, or Multi-Paxos for distributed consistency, Transaction Management (MVCC), Partitioning/sharding, distributed transactions, CAP theorem trade-off.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Disability Accommodation: Applicants requiring an accommodation for any part of the application and/or interviewing process may contact Oracle’s Disability Assistance Center at 1-888-404-2494.
• Hiring Range in USD: $135,200 - $306,400 per year.
• 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; Paid sick leave; Paid parental leave; Adoption assistance; Employee Stock Purchase Plan; Financial planning and group legal; Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.

Pay

$135,200 - $306,400 per year.

Schedule

Full-time.