Sr Principal Software Engineer​/Consulting Member of Technical Staff

Job Description

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) enables you to build and operate a massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi‑tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands‑on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve complex problems in distributed, highly available services and virtualized infrastructure.

Our engineers have a significant technical and business impact at every level designing and building innovative new systems to power our customers’ business‑critical applications.

We are reimagining what’s possible with a true cloud‑native data service to provide unparalleled performance and durability with our new large‑scale distributed services and storage backend. Our services expose highly available, high‑performance storage volumes and backups to our elastic compute customers.

We’re looking for hands‑on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed database systems, caching, storage infrastructure, transaction processing, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle, you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space – we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives.

An engineer at any level can have a significant technical and business impact.

• 10 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud services
• Proven track record of owning large features end‑to‑end: problem definition, design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation (SLOs/metrics)
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems concepts
• Deep knowledge of Linux and Linux internals (process scheduling, memory management, file systems, networking)
• Experience designing multi‑tenant, highly available, and scalable services (HA, DR, capacity planning)
• Proficiency in one or more of:
  Java, Go, C/C++, or Rust; plus scripting (Python/Bash)
• Production‑grade observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and performance profiling/tuning
• Security‑minded engineering: secure coding, auth
  
  N/Z, TLS, secrets management
• Experience working on open source software/contributions to open source Redis/memcached/Cassandra/PSQL is a strong plus.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will apply intermediate to advanced knowledge of software architecture to perform software development tasks, including developing, debugging, or designing software applications or operating systems according to provided design specifications, and to conceive solutions for open‑ended and/or green‑field market requirements. Build enhancements, new components, and new services within an existing software architecture and suggest improvements to the architecture, operational practices, scalability, and resiliency.

You will:

• Work with architects and business stakeholders to deliver new features/services and improvements.
• Debug operational issues and suggest fixes, raise the operational bar, and improve the scalability of service(s)
• Assist customers with onboarding to the service as needed
• Perform on‑call operations duties on a rotating basis
• Reimagine service experiences and deliver proof points that improve the service along one or more dimensions (semantic understanding to improve operations, usability, cost to serve, availability, storage tiering to name a few)
• This is a challenging role with expectations including, but not limited to
• Technical leadership to drive critical work items, unlocking onboarding of large customers, service scalability, new product initiatives to name a few
• Drive roadmap/vision/competitive analysis and/or bootstrap work streams to keep pace with landscape changes – covert and overt from competition
• Excellent communication skills to build consensus across stakeholders and, when needed, collaborate on a business case to seek executive leadership…