Principal Software Engineer

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.What You’ll Be Building and LeadingEnd-to-End Solutions: Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale.Foundational Frameworks: Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest-availability and most demanding workloads.Performance at Scale: Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure.Strategic Innovation: Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps.Why Join Us?Industry Impact: Shape the direction and standards of the global public cloud by leading initiatives with large-scale customer and organizational impact.Personal Growth: Accelerate your career at the intersection of technical and strategic leadership, with opportunities to influence OCI's top priorities and outcomes.Collaborative Leadership: Partner with and mentor diverse, world-class engineering teams while enjoying autonomy and strong executive support.Culture of Excellence: Help foster an inclusive, high-performance workplace where innovators of all backgrounds can thrive, drive change, and deliver excellence.Responsibilities We’re seeking visionary technical leaders who excel at defining and executing at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud. As a recognized expert, you will 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.A journaling service that reliably and efficiently records sequential, immutable logs (journal entries) of operations or transactions, with architecture designed to support increases in workload (scalability), while consistently delivering very fast response times for both recording and retrieving journal entries (low latency).You will mentor senior engineers, drive strategy, and be responsible for cross-team alignment and delivery of mission-critical services. You are respected for providing technical direction, simplifying complexity, improving operational outcomes, and raising the engineering bar throughout the organization. Your influence reaches across product, engineering, and operational teams, and you routinely collaborate with executive leadership to set and realize long-term strategy.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.You will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will perform software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems. You will be able to work with Engineering Managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to junior team members. You can go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You’ve made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument your service. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.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 View email address on click.appcast.io or by calling View phone number on click.appcast.io 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. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.Disclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations onlyUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion2. Short term disability and long term disability3. Life insurance and AD&D4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match8. 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.9. 11 paid holidays10. 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.11. Paid parental leave12. Adoption assistance13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan14. Financial planning and group legal15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insuranceThe 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 - IC4BS, 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 scaleCloud 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 skillsComfortable with complex, swiftly evolving software development environmentsAbility to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processesExpert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologiesExperience working with geographically distributed teamsSignificant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environmentsDemonstrates strong mentorship abilities, effectively guiding and developing teams while aligning engineers with shared objectivesFull timePosting Date: 2026-07-27