Principal Engineer, OCI Object Storage

Salary: $114,600 - 234,600 per year Requirements:

• Strong software engineering experience in Java or a similar language, including designing, developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining production services.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming principles and common design patterns.
• Experience designing clean, extensible APIs and service interfaces with attention to maintainability, testability, backward compatibility, and operational safety.
• Demonstrated experience building distributed systems across multiple hosts, availability domains, or regions.
• Strong knowledge of distributed-systems concepts, including replication, consistency, consensus, partition tolerance, leader election, idempotency, retries, failure handling, and eventual consistency.
• Experience designing systems for high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and data durability.
• Experience with concurrent and multithreaded programming, performance analysis, memory management, and diagnosing latency or throughput bottlenecks in Java services.
• Proficiency in unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, including tests for failure scenarios and distributed-system edge cases.
• Experience with observability practices and tools, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and production debugging.
• Ability to write clear technical design documents, assess architectural tradeoffs, and lead design reviews for complex services.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working with engineering, security, networking, and operations teams.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, improve engineering standards, and provide technical leadership without direct people-management responsibility.
• Preferred: Experience with object storage, distributed databases, file systems, or other large-scale data platforms.
• Preferred: Knowledge of storage concepts such as metadata management, object lifecycle operations, data placement, replication or erasure coding, and recovery from hardware or infrastructure failures.
• Preferred: Experience designing systems across multiple regions or availability domains, or operating services with demanding availability, durability, latency, or throughput requirements.
• Preferred: Familiarity with RESTful APIs, asynchronous processing, message queues, event-driven architectures, containerized environments, cloud infrastructure, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Preferred: Knowledge of cloud-service security practices, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure data handling.

• Architect and deliver core object-storage infrastructure, including metadata, data placement, replication, lifecycle management, and durability workflows.
• Lead the design of large-scale distributed systems that deliver availability, consistency, performance, and operational simplicity.
• Improve service reliability through fault isolation, automated remediation, disaster recovery design, capacity planning, and rigorous operational practices.
• Set technical strategy for complex, cross-team initiatives and influence architecture and execution beyond your immediate team.
• Investigate and resolve difficult production issues, applying deep systems expertise to prevent recurrence.
• Develop tooling, automation, and observability that simplify operating, diagnosing, and evolving the service.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to incorporate secure-by-design practices into storage infrastructure.
• Establish engineering standards through design reviews, technical mentorship, and clear written communication.

• Architect
• Cloud
• Hardware
• Java
• Oracle
• Security

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Were partnering with hackajob to connect exceptional professionals with Oracle for this Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer role, based onsite in Nashville, Tennessee. As a senior individual contributor, youll help shape the foundational systems behind a highly available, durable, globally distributed object-storage service, collaborating with teams across storage, networking, security, control plane, and observability. The U.S. hiring range is $114,600–$234,600 per year, with possible eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral; placement depends on skills, experience, market conditions, location, and internal equity. Our U.S. benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter benefits; a 401(k) with company match; paid time off, holidays, sick and parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and legal services; and voluntary insurance options. Applications are generally accepted for at least three calendar days after posting or while the role remains listed. U.S.-based employees complete identity verification during onboarding, which involves biometric information processing; accommodations may be available following an individualized assessment. Some U.S.-based or customer-facing roles may also be subject to applicable immunization or occupational-health mandates and drug-testing requirements.

last updated 41 week of 2026