Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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Description

This is an opportunity to solve foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems with broad impact across OCI. We are hiring Senior Principal engineers and leaders who are excited by large-scale cloud infrastructure, deployment orchestration, operational automation, and building trustworthy systems. You will help shape a new team and create the platforms that enable OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently at unprecedented scale.

Leads the architecture of highly scalable, resilient distributed systems and mentors engineering teams. Drives performance optimization, elasticity, data-plane innovation, fault tolerance, and SLO-based reliability. Establishes advanced observability, correctness, replication, and operational standards while leading complex incident resolution and RCAs. Architects security, compliance, IaC, and automated change-management solutions for safe, reliable cloud operations at scale.

Responsibilities

Below are the key responsibilities:
System Design & Architecture

• Lead and mentor the architecture of highly scalable, elastic, interdependent distributed systems.
• Identify performance bottlenecks, define scalability requirements, and optimize systems for hyperscale workloads.
• Drive innovation in distributed state management and data-plane platforms.
• Architect fault-tolerant systems using advanced redundancy, replication, failover, and resilience mechanisms.
• Establish SLO-based standards for availability, durability, and reliability.
• Define KPIs and advanced telemetry, dashboards, and alerting for complex systems.
• Apply formal verification techniques such as TLA+ and develop advanced replication and synchronization strategies.

Operational Excellence

• Provide technical leadership for complex production issues, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Establish operational readiness and SOP standards across systems and partners.
• Design strategies for in-service maintenance and upgrades with minimal customer impact.

Security & Compliance

• Architect advanced security controls for multi-tenant environments and lead vulnerability remediation.
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards and guide documentation across projects.

Automation & Change Management

• Develop and oversee enterprise-level IaC and automation strategies.
• Drive automated, reliable patching, upgrades, and rollbacks across interdependent systems.

Below are the Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution

• Lead critical, high-impact initiatives, managing timelines, deliverables, resources, and budgets while adapting to changing business priorities.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Influence cross-functional leaders and stakeholders to align on strategic objectives and build long-term partnerships.
• Champion transparency, collaboration, and diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving

• Lead advanced problem-solving and serve as an escalation point for complex issues.
• Drive innovative, data-driven solutions and root cause prevention.

Continuous Learning

• Serve as a technical thought leader, applying deep industry expertise and emerging technologies.
• Promote continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and mentorship across teams.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive organization-wide improvements to processes, tools, and workflows.
• Define metrics to measure effectiveness and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Performance & Development

• Serve as a subject matter expert on talent strategy and development.
• Provide leadership in candidate assessment, interviews, hiring decisions, and organizational talent development.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US:
Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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