Lead Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Salary: $146,300 - 306,400 per year Requirements:

• We are looking for a Senior Principal-level engineer or leader with deep experience in large-scale cloud infrastructure, deployment orchestration, operational automation, and dependable systems.
• We need expertise in designing highly scalable, resilient distributed systems and mentoring engineering teams.
• Strong background in performance tuning, elasticity, data-plane innovation, fault tolerance, and SLO-driven reliability is required.
• Experience building advanced observability, correctness, replication, and operational standards is expected.
• We seek knowledge of security, compliance, infrastructure as code, and automated change-management for safe cloud operations.
• Familiarity with incident management, root cause analysis, and complex production troubleshooting is important.
• Experience with formal verification approaches such as TLA+ and advanced replication and synchronization strategies is valued.
• Ability to lead cross-functional stakeholders, manage priorities, and influence strategic objectives is required.
• Experience contributing to talent strategy, interviews, hiring decisions, and team development is beneficial.

• We lead the architecture of highly scalable, elastic, interdependent distributed systems.
• We identify performance constraints, define scalability targets, and optimize systems for hyperscale workloads.
• We drive innovation in distributed state management and data-plane platforms.
• We design fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and other resilience mechanisms.
• We establish standards for availability, durability, reliability, telemetry, dashboards, and alerting.
• We apply formal verification techniques such as TLA+ and develop advanced synchronization and replication approaches.
• We provide technical leadership for major production incidents, operational response, and root cause analysis.
• We set operational readiness and standard operating procedures across systems and partners.
• We plan maintenance and upgrades to minimize customer impact.
• We design advanced security controls for multi-tenant environments and drive vulnerability remediation.
• We ensure compliance with applicable standards and maintain supporting documentation.
• We develop and oversee enterprise-wide infrastructure-as-code and automation strategies.
• We enable automated patching, upgrades, and rollbacks across interconnected systems.
• We lead critical initiatives by managing timelines, deliverables, resources, and budgets.
• We influence cross-functional leaders and stakeholders to align on strategic goals and build long-term partnerships.
• We act as an escalation point for complex problems and promote data-driven root cause prevention.
• We serve as technical thought leaders, sharing knowledge and mentoring teams.
• We drive improvements to processes, tools, and workflows, and define metrics to measure effectiveness.
• We contribute to talent strategy by supporting candidate evaluation, interviews, hiring decisions, and organizational development.

• Cloud
• Incident Management
• Support
• Oracle
• Security
• Architect
• DevOps

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We are collaborating with Oracle to connect exceptional professionals with this opportunity. This Senior Principal role is focused on solving foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability challenges with broad impact across OCI. We are building a new team that will help OCI engineers deploy and operate services with confidence at unprecedented scale. The position is based in the US, with a hiring range of $146,300 to $306,400 per year, and may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, disability insurance, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, a 401(k) with company match, vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, parental leave, adoption assistance, an employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, group legal support, and voluntary insurance options.

last updated 36 week of 2026