Principal Software Developer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission‑critical applications for top‑tier enterprises worldwide. OCI’s cloud services are hyper‑scale, multi‑tenant, and deployed in more than 50 regions, spanning public, dedicated, hybrid, multi‑cloud, and edge computing. 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 engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest‑availability workloads. Performance at Scale: Direct the development of 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 solutions for one of the two new OCI services: Key value store : a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service with fast, predictable performance, seamless scalability, and automatic infrastructure management. Designed for high‑volume, real‑time workloads with single‑digit millisecond latency for reads and writes. Journaling service : a reliable, efficient log system for sequential, immutable entries of operations or transactions, supporting scalable workloads with low‑latency recording and retrieval. 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 Architects, 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 and building a powerful engineering team with an established industry track record of success in leading large cloud‑scale projects. You will take an active role in defining and evolving standard practices and procedures. You will perform software development tasks related to the development, design, and debugging of software applications or operating systems. You will work with Engineering Managers and TPMs, providing direct guidance to junior team members, balancing speed and quality with incremental improvements, and instilling a culture of high quality and customer focus. Preferred Skills and Experience BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). More than 6 years’ experience delivering distributed, mission‑critical cloud services at large scale. Strong experience with high‑concurrency systems. Cloud platform expertise (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Python, Java), DevOps & automation, networking, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), security, virtualization, database management, and understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). 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. Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies. Experience working with geographically distributed teams. Work experience in startups or fast‑paced enterprise technology development environments is a plus. Demonstrates strong mentorship abilities. Qualifications 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 only. US: Hiring range in USD from $99,600 – $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Benefits Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion. Short‑term 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 salaried employees; accrual rates vary by tenure and hours worked. 11 paid holidays. Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed yearly with up to 112 hours carry‑over. Paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Financial planning and group legal services. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance. About Oracle 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. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives. We are 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. 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