Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Principal Member Of Technical Staff

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for enterprises around the world. OCI is expanding across public cloud, dedicated cloud, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge deployments.

Within OCI, the Technical Strategy & Oversight organization builds foundational systems for OCI's most demanding services. One of its boldest initiatives is Autonomous OCI: a greenfield effort to build a cloud platform that can operate and scale with far less manual work.

Today, every new region and service feature adds operational cost and complexity. Autonomous OCI is designed to change that by making services fast, resilient, and self-healing by default—helping OCI scale to thousands of regions without growing operations teams at the same rate.

As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will help shape Lightweight Infrastructure (LWI), the next-generation runtime and platform layer for compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance.

What you will do

• Lead the design and delivery of core distributed systems and cloud-platform capabilities.
• Drive complex technical work from design through implementation, rollout, and operational readiness.
• Work closely with architects and partner teams to improve the scale, resilience, performance, and simplicity of OCI services running on LWI.
• Solve difficult problems involving distributed state, failures, performance, security, lifecycle management, and automation.
• Raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, hiring, and hands-on technical leadership.
• Help define the engineering principles and long-term architecture of OCI's next-generation service platform.

Where you can make an impact

Depending on your background and interests, you may work in one of the following LWI pillars:

• Compute: Build OCI's next-generation multi-tenant compute platform, working across Rust, virtualization, QEMU, performance, and heterogeneous hardware.
• State: Build the storage layer for LWI—from fast temporary storage to durable volumes—and help shape the path toward serverless PostgreSQL on OCI.
• Identity & Security: Build hardware-rooted workload identity and security for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure, using PKI, confidential computing, enclaves, and attestation.
• Connectivity: Build the secure networking layer for LWI, including ingress, egress, eBPF-based firewalling, and high-performance internal load balancing.
• Stack Lifecycle and Infrastructure Management: Build the lifecycle and operations platform that deploys, upgrades, monitors, recovers, and securely images the entire LWI stack across OCI regions.
• Controllers: Build the Borg-style orchestration and management layer that schedules workloads, manages their lifecycle, and keeps OCI services running reliably at scale.

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: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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…