Senior Principal Software Engineer - Media Entertainment Services

Job Description

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.

Why OCI

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

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.

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: $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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 opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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 holidays

10. 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 leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The 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 - IC5

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