Principal Software Developer – OCI Technical Strategy & Oversight Org

Overview

Build the Future of Cloud at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). At OCI, we deliver mission-critical applications for the world’s leading enterprises, driving digital transformation through hyper-scale, secure, multi-tenant cloud services across 50 global regions. OCI is redefining the future with dedicated, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge computing deployments.

About Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO)

Within TSO, our mission is to enable customer choice and empower transparency, all while maximizing the value of cloud. We’re at the center of OCI’s most ambitious initiatives—building innovative platforms and foundational frameworks to support developers and fuel next-generation cloud services.

• Greenfield Environments:
  Design and launch cloud services from the ground up

• High-Impact Frameworks:
  Engineer new container runtimes to operate OCI’s most demanding, high-availability workloads

• Performance Breakthroughs:
  Develop remote persistent storage matching the speed and latency of local NVMe drives

• Standardized Innovation:
  Deliver core data-plane components and tools driving critical performance improvements across OCI

• Innovation at Scale:
  Contribute to pioneering work shaping the future of the global cloud ecosystem

• Visible Career Growth:
  Join us at a dynamic, high-growth phase—your impact will be tangible and valued

• Collaboration & Autonomy:
  Work alongside a talented, diverse team—enjoying both freedom and strong support

• Dynamic & Inclusive Culture:
  Experience a flexible workplace where you can belong, thrive, and make a difference

If you’re passionate about building foundational technologies, eager to collaborate with world-class engineering talent, and ready to leave your mark on the global cloud landscape—we want to hear from you!

We’re seeking self-motivated engineers who have experience designing major features and launching them into production. You have built and operated high-scale public cloud services and possess a deep understanding of control plane architecture. You’re technically strong, work independently, and extend your leadership to development teams. You know how to balance speed with quality, drive continuous improvement, and inspire others to raise the bar for automation, efficiency, and operational excellence.

In this role, you will drive the design of major service components, working closely with tech leads, engineering managers, and TPMs, while also providing hands-on guidance to junior team members. You’ll move fluidly between translating high-level system design to low-level system design, writing architectural documentation, leading engineering peer reviews, and tackling hands-on tasks like prototyping, code reviews, and bootstrapping projects. With your ability to automate and instrument services, you’ll help development teams deliver high-quality results and instill a strong culture of customer focus.

• BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

• 8 years experience building robust, distributed services in high-performance development environments

• Development experience in a modern programming language, such as Java, C, C#

• Strong grasp of data structures and algorithms; experience optimizing for scale.

• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service or large distributed applications in production.

• Deep understanding of object-oriented design and SDK development, specifically within a cloud environment

• Experience working closely with architects, principals, product and program managers to deliver product features on time and with high quality.

• Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.

• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.

• Good understanding of databases, No
  
  SQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.

• Hands-on experience in operational environments with mission-critical, tier-0 services

• Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Expertise in…