Lead Principal Network Developer

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of cloud technologies that operate at massive scale. Our customers run some of the world’s most demanding workloads, and our network products form the foundation of OCI’s rapidly expanding global cloud footprint.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of cloud technologies that operate at massive scale. Our customers run some of the world’s most demanding workloads, and our network products form the foundation of OCI’s rapidly expanding global cloud footprint.

The Network Products Engineering organization defines, develops, qualifies, and delivers the next generation of networking products that power OCI data centers worldwide. We partner closely with hardware vendors, software engineering, network engineering, operations, supply chain, finance, and product organizations to deliver industry‑leading networking solutions.

We are seeking a Lead Principal Network Developer (IC5) to provide technical leadership across Network Products Engineering. This senior individual contributor will define architectural vision, drive product strategy, influence industry partners, and ensure OCI’s network products meet the performance, reliability, scalability, and operational standards required to support one of the world’s largest cloud infrastructures.

Success in this role requires acting as a technical authority and building strong partnerships across Network Engineering, Network Operations, Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, and Product Management. This leader must be comfortable driving alignment and delivering results through influence across organizations without direct authority.

• Proactively consults on the design across internal teams to determine feasibility and development of the most advanced network fabric and systems to support large‑scale enterprise, data center, or cloud‑based networking environments, driving strategic technological advancements.
• Oversees the validation of production network and ensures scaling strategies are optimized, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and organizational impact.
• Influences the network solution and architecture design/validation process, providing industry‑leading insights and validation.
• Anticipates and mitigates highly complex, critical risks in network design prior to deployment, developing strategic recommendations that ensure future‑proof solutions.
• Leads high‑level collaborations with vendors and cross functional internal groups (e.g., quality assurance) to ensure alignment with comprehensive firmware/software, complex network configuration validation and resolution of critical bugs, impacting overall product reliability.
• Designs playbooks for highly complex issues with the widest blast radius related to network areas.
• Leads the design and optimization of network processes to drive efficiency.

• Leads the development and maintenance of the most advanced automation frameworks for testing and operations, driving significant efficiency improvements across the organization.
• Pioneers the automation of critical network tasks, including production and lab environments and drives optimization of repetitive support functions to significantly enhance processes.
• Spearheads the creation and customization of highly complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms, proactively ensuring network health and reliability.
• Leads the development and enhancement of the most advanced scripts driving automation of tasks across multiple teams and business units, driving organizational efficiency.
• Architects and scales infrastructure pipelines, configuration items, defining Playbooks and organizing resources.
• Leads cross‑functional efforts to extend or evolve tools that enable the scalable launch of new product functionality.

• Updates and improves existing test cases and the strategic development of new test cases, and comprehensive test strategies, to ensure network integrity across the organization.
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