Senior Principal Software Engineer - Media Entertainment Services

Overview

Oracle Media Services is hiring a Consulting Member of Technical Staff, IC5, to help lead Studio in the Cloud— a product line focused on enabling studio‑grade creative workloads on OCI. This individual contributor will own ambiguous, cross‑team technical initiatives from architecture through production readiness, with emphasis on OCI Batch, Skydance/SDA acceptance, GPU and 5K scale readiness, fractional GPU enablement, customer‑critical blockers, and operational maturity.

OCI is building cloud infrastructure for demanding media, creative, AI, and high‑performance workloads where scale, reliability, cost, and customer trust all matter. This role offers the chance to shape how studios run production‑grade creative workflows in the cloud while improving the engineering systems, operational practices, and AI‑enabled delivery patterns that make customer adoption repeatable.

Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end architecture and execution for critical Studio in the Cloud features across OCI Batch, GPU readiness, 5K scale, fractional GPU enablement, and related platform dependencies.
• Drive Batch/SDA acceptance and production‑readiness workstreams by clarifying ownership, sequencing dependencies, and closing technical and operational gaps.
• Strengthen operational posture through observability, runbooks, incident‑prevention practices, readiness reviews, reliability metrics, and customer escalation discipline.
• Partner across Oracle Media Services, OCI infrastructure, product, support, and customer‑facing teams to remove blockers and align roadmap delivery with customer commitments.
• Introduce practical AI‑first engineering workflows that reduce reporting toil, improve delivery confidence, and help engineers move faster without weakening review, security, or quality practices.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical direction, execution planning, and examples of senior‑level ownership in ambiguous environments.
• Translate customer adoption blockers into actionable technical plans with clear risks, milestones, tradeoffs, and operational handoffs.
• Communicate technical status, decisions, risks, and options crisply to senior engineering, product, and operational stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Senior‑level experience designing, building, and operating distributed cloud services, workflow orchestration systems, media platforms, GPU infrastructure, or high‑scale production platforms.
• Evidence of leading ambiguous cross‑team initiatives through architecture, execution ownership, dependency management, and production readiness as an individual contributor.
• Strong system design judgment across scalability, reliability, observability, operational safety, cost, and customer impact.
• Hands‑on experience improving service operations, including incident response, runbooks, reliability metrics, readiness reviews, or customer escalation processes.
• Experience using or introducing AI‑assisted engineering workflows, developer‑productivity automation, reporting automation, or SDLC improvements in a quality‑conscious environment.
• Ability to influence without direct authority across engineering, product, operations, support, and infrastructure teams.
• Clear written and verbal communication for architecture tradeoffs, executive‑ready status, roadmap risks, and operational decisions.
• Background in media workflows, cloud rendering, creative production platforms, Batch systems, GPU scheduling, HPC, or adjacent infrastructure is strongly relevant.

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 provided to all eligible employees, with accrual rates varying by hours worked.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year with a cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal services.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.

Salary Range (US)

USD $96,800 – $251,600 per year, with potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Salaries are determined based on knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, and location, and are placed into the range by internal peer equity.

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.