Principal Software Developer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Technical Strategy And OversightOracle 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.Responsibilities10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.Provides strategic technical guidance to senior leadership, influencing org-wide goals and driving alignment across initiatives.Strong experience of C/C++ and open to work on RustStrong experience with high-concurrency systems.Experience in low-level and performance-critical system level design and service development.Working experience with some of the following technologies: 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-offStrong 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 environmentsDemonstrates strong mentorship abilities, effectively guiding and developing teams while aligning engineers with shared objectives.Required SkillsC++ Programming Language