Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc. As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 10 years of software engineering or related experience.

Career Level – IC4

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer‑focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

Join the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team. Within OCI our focus is on Networking. We are looking for Software Engineers to join a motivated and highly collaborative team, to design and build innovative next generation Networking Data Plane from the ground up. This will involve working with Smart

NICs and DPUs/IPUs. These are exciting times in our space – still at an early stage, working on ambitious new initiatives and growing fast. An engineer at any level can have a significant technical and business impact.

You should be a highly proficient programmer with willingness and ability to deep dive into any part of the networking stack. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. You will be expected to mentor new hires, and where appropriate, provide technical leadership to the team.

• Utilize standard software development practices and procedures towards scoping, architecture, specification, development, source control, code review, documentation and testing of features.

• Work closely with fellow team members, geographically distributed teammates, and cross-functional teams toward the execution of agreed project milestones and delivery dates.

• Communicate status, and risks, and offer mitigation strategies to ensure on‑time delivery of all committed items.

• Support operational excellence in a Cloud Dev Ops environment.

• Proficiency with C/C .

• Scripting proficiency, in a language such as Python, Perl or Bash.

• Hands‑on experience developing multi‑threaded embedded Linux application/infrastructure.

• Experience in one or more Network or Storage stacks and protocols such as P4, DOCA, TCP/IP, NVMe, PCIe, DPDK.

• Experience with RDMA protocols such as GPUDirect RDMA or RoCEv
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• Firmware development skills and experience with embedded systems.

• Knowledge of at least one of Intel/AMD/ARM computer architectures.

• Hardware and/or System bring‑up experience.

• Experience with Linux Kernel/Driver programming.

• Proficient with Linux.

• Virtualization technologies (SRIOV, VirtIO, VDPA etc).

• Experience in CI/CD environments.

• Comfortable working with remote lab equipment.

• Networking Data Plane or Networking Control Plane experience.

BSEE, BSCS, BSCE, or equivalent. MSEE, MSCS, or MSCE is a plus

Minimum 10 years of Software Engineering experience working on challenging issues with a self‑starter and…