Principal Software Engineer, OpenSearch

Salary: $104,500 - 234,600 per year Requirements:

• We are looking for a Bachelors or Masters degree in a technical field, or equivalent industry experience.
• We require 10+ years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure-focused roles.
• We need experience designing, deploying, and operating scalable OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or comparable managed-service clusters.
• We expect strong expertise in distributed systems, including availability, throughput, and production operations.
• We need proficiency in Java and Python, along with solid unit, integration, and CI practices.
• We value hands-on experience with automation, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning.
• Exposure to vector databases is an advantage.

• We design, deliver, and enhance secure, scalable features and fixes for our managed OpenSearch service.
• We make strong technical decisions, support release planning, and ensure production readiness and operational excellence.
• We improve build pipelines, test frameworks, and performance and scalability validation.
• We collaborate across OCI to remove delivery blockers and resolve complex distributed network and service issues.
• We automate operational processes, strengthen SRE practices, and take part in our on-call rotation.
• We apply OCI security standards and mentor engineers through code review and problem solving.
• We lead cross-team improvements to middleware patterns and runtimes to standardize interoperability at scale.
• We define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies that reduce downstream disruption.
• We drive shared observability baselines, including SLOs and error budgets, as well as resilience patterns across multiple services.
• We design software solutions, analyze requirements, and share results with management upon completion.
• We improve the software development lifecycle and coach engineers to raise execution quality.
• We develop and guide new features and enhancements, lead design specifications, and create documentation to clarify software design and code.
• We lead code reviews across multiple areas to help drive improvement.
• We debug and troubleshoot complex software problems and implement fixes.
• We implement comprehensive testing, quality assurance, logging, monitoring, and observability to support effective debugging.
• We profile and optimize performance, build scalable solutions, and anticipate potential issues.
• We resolve complex API functionality and integration issues and implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• We develop and contribute to software, systems, and services while ensuring review by technical leaders.
• We coach less experienced developers and help maintain architectural standards.
• We work with stakeholders to ensure alignment with software architecture and evaluate potential architectural changes.
• We collaborate on customer issues, provide advanced technical guidance when needed, and advocate for customer-focused improvements.
• We help ensure timely resolution of issues and effective communication with customers.
• We implement issue and defect handling processes and investigate complex maintenance problems.
• We work with our team and external partners to follow development practices and coding standards.
• We participate in peer review, provide technical leadership, and ensure code quality and compliance with acceptance criteria.
• We apply secure coding practices to prevent vulnerabilities.
• We perform maintenance and testing for systems that need upgrades or patching, including critical vulnerabilities.
• We improve automation, testing, and debugging to support service availability, health, reliability, and support.
• We manage moderately complex tasks, track timelines and deliverables, and coordinate work across multiple projects.
• We collaborate across the organization to align expectations and achieve shared goals.
• We analyze data to solve moderately complex issues, escalate critical problems when needed, and document problem-solving approaches.
• We continue learning new tools and trends, seek feedback, and coach junior team members.
• We propose and implement process improvements across teams and evaluate their impact.
• We participate in candidate interviews, assess applicants, and provide hiring recommendations.

• API
• OpenSearch
• Cloud
• ElasticSearch
• Support
• Java
• LESS
• Network
• Python
• Security
• Oracle

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build and operate OCI Search Service with OpenSearch. This individual-contributor role focuses on complex distributed systems design and service excellence for a managed search and analytics platform used for application search, log analytics, and observability workloads. We offer the opportunity to solve production-scale infrastructure challenges where architecture, automation, security, and customer experience are closely connected. The role sits within a team that leads cross-platform projects, improves interoperability and multi-tenant scale, and strengthens observability, capacity planning, resilience, and developer experience. The posted hiring range in the U.S. is $104,500 to $234,600 per annum, and range and benefit information applies only to the stated locations.

last updated 39 week of 2026