Senior Principal Software Developer

Trending Job Identification 334432 Job Category Product Development Posting Date 07/14/2026, 12:40 AM Job Type Regular Employee Does this position require a security clearance? No Years 10+ years Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English Job Description 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. For this role, we are looking for technical leaders to build and deliver a key-value store that supports billions of keys and millions of requests per second at sub-millisecond latencies. This an exciting opportunity to deliver a new OCI service from scratch and work with senior architects and leaders at OCI. You must be self-motivated engineer with passion and expertise in solving challenging system, data-plane level and performance problems. You should be a rock solid developer able to dive deep into low-level systems, design broad distributed system interactions for high performance, high scale data-planes. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged. Responsibilities With your superb technical, research and analytical capabilities and demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively to delight our customers, you will envision, collaborate with executives for investment and drive the software design and development for new major data-plane components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You will 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. Take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Perform software development tasks associated with developing, designing and debugging software applications or operating systems. Work with Engineering Managers and TPMs, providing direct guidance to junior team members. From high level system design, writing architectural documentation, driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping. Balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. Motivate teams, automate and instrument services, and instill a culture of high quality and customer focus. Key Qualifications 10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience. Strong experience with C/C++ and open to working on Rust. Strong experience with high-concurrency systems. Experience in low-level and performance-critical system level design and service development. Familiarity with 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-offs. 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. Demonstrated strong mentorship abilities, effectively guiding and developing teams while aligning engineers with shared objectives. Salary & Benefits US: Hiring Range in USD from: $135,200 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations. 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 for all eligible employees. Accrued Vacation for others. 13 days annually for first 3 years, 18 days thereafter. Pro-rated for part-time. 11 paid holidays Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed yearly, up to 112 hours. Paid parental leave Adoption assistance Employee Stock Purchase Plan Financial planning and group legal Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance Career Level - IC5 Required Skills C++ Programming Language About Us Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. With AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. 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. 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