Sr Principal Software Engineer – AI Infrastructure Innovation

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) architecture development engineering team is seeking a highly driven Senior Principal Software engineer. We are building the next generation of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.

As a Senior Principal software engineer, part of our growing team, you will be involved in evaluation, prototyping, and optimizing cutting‑edge distributed systems and cloud platforms.

You will define, design, and implement large‑scale high‑performance cloud services. You will interact closely with hardware, software development teams, and internal and external partners to help drive Oracle’s cloud platform solution space. You will be a critical part of the team developing Oracle’s growing cloud infrastructure solutions.

You will work with the latest distributed systems architectures, benchmark their performance, and collaborate with software engineers to ensure tight integration of new platform features. You’ll have a direct impact on shaping the future of highly available, scalable, and performant cloud platforms for a variety of workloads.

Our Senior Principal engineers are also the people who can work independently and provide technical leadership to the broader organization. You should have experience developing high‑scale infrastructure and operating large, distributed services, and an understanding of how to make these cloud‑scale services resilient. The ideal candidate will be technically strong and productive; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements.

You understand operational excellence and know‑how to infuse a culture of being proactive within your team. You recommend and justify major changes to new and existing products and establish consensus with data‑driven approaches.

• Evaluation of system architecture and proposed implementation path analysis.
• Work directly with hardware, architecture, and software development teams on system architecture, implementation, development, deployment, and troubleshooting. Collaboration is also expected with the wider Oracle engineering and operations functional groups as well as our external partners.
• Conduct comprehensive benchmarking and performance analysis of distributed system components from various vendors.
• Compare and contrast new solutions in infrastructure and distributed systems with industry‑standard platforms.
• Develop tools and processes for evaluating the performance of system components in real‑world applications.
• Contribute to the design and improvement of performance optimization algorithms for distributed systems.

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in software development, including building and operating large‑scale, highly distributed systems.
• Demonstrated proficiency in coding with Java, GoLang, C#, or similar object‑oriented languages.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, performance optimization, and benchmarking techniques.
• Experience in the architecture, design, and implementation of modern server platforms (across multiple architectures, including x86 and ARM).
• Proven ability to debug complex issues spanning software and hardware components.
• Hands‑on experience developing, maintaining, and leading large‑scale cloud services on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle).
• Excellent problem‑solving abilities, strong communication skills, ownership mindset, and leadership capability.

Disclaimer:

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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.

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