Principal Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure Innovation

Overview

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

As a 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.

• 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.
• 5+ 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.

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only. US:
Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 - $223,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity. 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. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off:
  Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees…