Principal Software Engineer

Job TitleLead the development of scalable, elastic, and highly available distributed systems for hyperscale cloud environments. Architect critical components and drive performance, reliability, operational excellence, security, and automation.System Design & ArchitectureDesign and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems supporting horizontal and vertical scaling.Define scalability requirements and optimize code and data paths for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads.Leverage distributed state management and data-plane platforms for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing.Build fault-tolerant, highly available systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and appropriate consistency and availability tradeoffs.Implement load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting while meeting defined SLOs.Define KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts to proactively monitor system health and performance.Design performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing to validate scalability, correctness, and resilience.Implement replication and synchronization mechanisms to ensure data integrity, durability, and availability.Operational Excellence & Incident ManagementProactively diagnose and resolve complex production issues and ensure operational readiness.Support incident response, root cause investigations, and operational support rotations.Design systems for in-service maintenance and upgrades with minimal customer impact.Mentor engineers on troubleshooting and operational best practices.Security & ComplianceImplement robust security controls for multi-tenant cloud environments, including encryption and access controls.Remediate security gaps and ensure compliance with applicable standards and requirements.Maintain accurate security and compliance documentation.Automation & Change ManagementDevelop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for managing cloud infrastructure.Enable safe, repeatable patching, upgrades, deployments, and rollbacks through effective change-management practices.ResponsibilitiesBelow are the core responsibilities: Planning & ExecutionPlan and coordinate moderately complex engineering initiatives, managing priorities, timelines, dependencies, risks, and deliverables.Provide technical oversight and adjust execution plans as priorities or requirements evolve.Collaboration & PartnershipCollaborate across teams and organizations to align technical direction and achieve shared objectives.Understand customer and stakeholder needs and communicate technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs effectively.Foster an inclusive and collaborative engineering environment.Problem SolvingAnalyze and resolve complex technical issues using data, telemetry, and sound engineering judgment.Escalate critical issues with clear assessments and recommended solutions.Document key technical decisions, solutions, and lessons learned.Continuous LearningStay current with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, reliability, security, and automation technologies and practices.Seek feedback, continuously develop technical expertise, and promote knowledge sharing.Coach and mentor junior engineers.Continuous ImprovementIdentify and implement improvements to engineering processes, architectures, tools, and operational workflows.Drive improvements in efficiency, scalability, reliability, security, and engineering effectiveness.Performance & DevelopmentSupport team growth through mentoring and knowledge sharing.Participate in candidate interviews, technical assessments, and hiring recommendations.QualificationsDisclaimer: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.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 - IC4