Principal Software Development Engineer; OCI

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is redefining the cloud for the world's largest enterprises. We operate with the agility and innovation of a startup while delivering the scale, security, and reliability expected from one of the world's leading technology companies.

OCI powers mission-critical workloads for customers globally, offering a comprehensive cloud platform built for high performance, distributed systems, and enterprise-grade reliability. Our engineering culture is grounded in OCI Values — emphasizing integrity, inclusion, innovation, customer focus, and operational excellence. We invest deeply in our people and foster an environment where diverse perspectives, collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning drive breakthrough results.

At OCI, you’ll work alongside exceptional engineers solving some of the most complex distributed systems challenges at cloud scale.

The OCI Limits Team owns the foundational platform that manages service limits, quotas, and capacity governance across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The team enables customers and internal OCI services to scale reliably and securely by providing automated limit management, quota enforcement, and high-scale control plane integrations. We work closely with service teams across OCI to support rapid cloud growth, operational stability, and enterprise-grade resource governance.

The organization operates highly distributed, mission-critical systems that directly impact customer onboarding, expansion, and cloud consumption experiences.

We are seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer with deep experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale service design. You are a hands‑on technical leader who has successfully designed and launched major platform features and services into production while operating highly available systems at scale.

You thrive in solving difficult infrastructure challenges and have a strong sense of ownership across the full software lifecycle — from architecture and development to operational excellence and long-term scalability. You are comfortable driving initiatives independently, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical direction across teams.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with pragmatic decision‑making, excellent collaboration skills, and a passion for building simple, reliable, and scalable systems.