Senior Principal Software Developer

Job Description Job Description Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission‑critical applications for top tier enterprises worldwide. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper‑scale, multi‑tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions. OCI is expanding beyond traditional boundaries to include dedicated, hybrid, and multi‑cloud, edge computing, and more. As part of the Technical Strategy Oversight (TSO) team within OCI, our mission is to maximize customer choice and transparency while delivering high‑value cloud solutions. We work at the strategic center of OCI’s most ambitious projects—architecting and delivering next‑generation platforms that empower developers and support groundbreaking cloud services. What You’ll Be Building and Leading End‑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 that 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 complex solutions for one of the two new OCI services. Key value store – a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service that delivers fast, predictable performance with seamless scalability, automatically handling infrastructure management, capacity provisioning, security, and backups. A journaling service that reliably records sequential, immutable logs with an architecture designed for scalability and 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 superb technical, research and analytical capabilities and a 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 foundations for the next generation of OCI data‑planes, making deep architectural changes 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 designing, debugging, and prototyping software applications or operating systems, while guiding junior team members. You can balance speed and quality with iteration, and you have motivated teams to improve processes and services through automation and instrumentation. Qualifications BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). More than 10 years of experience delivering distributed, mission‑critical cloud services at large scale. Strong experience in C/C++ and openness to work with Rust. Experience with high‑concurrency systems. Experience in low‑level and performance‑critical system‑level design and service development. Working experience with technologies such as Filesystem Journaling, high‑performance distributed storage, Write‑Ahead Logging (WAL), Raft, Paxos, or Multi‑Paxos for distributed consistency. 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 improve cross‑team processes. Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies. Experience working with geographically distributed teams. Significant work experience in fast‑paced enterprise technology development environments. Demonstrated strong mentorship abilities, effectively guiding and developing teams while aligning engineers with shared objectives. Career Level – IC5 Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. 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