Sr Principal Software Engineer

• Job Identification 316849
• Job Category Product Development
• Posting Date 11/23/2025, 01:49 AM
• Job Type Regular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance? No
• Years 10+ years
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Job Description

As a Senior Principal Engineer in this space, you will have broad ownership of core technical components and services. You will guide the engineering team and lead the development of cloud services that enable streaming providers to move their workloads to OCI. These services include playback, content augmentation, video transcoding and packaging, content delivery, streaming analytics, and flexible billing & cost analytics.

This is a unique opportunity to build a competitive product from the ground up and extend OCI’s reach into new opportunities within the media and entertainment industry. You will collaborate with engineering leaders to shape the path to success, leveraging your experience as a lead developer to influence and direct the project.

We are looking for someone with substantial experience in building, leading, and operating cloud services at a high technical level. Experience in video playback, video encoding technologies, content delivery using CDNs, and live streaming is highly desired. This individual contributor role is one of the senior-most technical positions within Oracle Cloud. We value individuals with exceptional soft skills alongside technical prowess.

Strong communication abilities, leadership, and collaboration are essential. You will mentor engineers, drive complex technical projects, and lead initiatives with confidence and independence.

Responsibilities

• Research in state of the art of specific technical focus areas.
• Cloud service architecture, micro-service design, scalability, observability and availability provisions.
• Design and implementation of services and their component micro-services.
• Collaboration within the engineering team to deliver and operate cloud services that enable streaming providers to shift their workloads to OCI.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry best practices, ensuring compliance and driving innovation within the organization.
• Launching new cloud services and establishing operational excellence.
• Lead implementation to realize and achieve the technical vision of the team.
• Ability to engage with geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Coaching, mentoring, and developing best talent.
• Establishing and stimulating software development standards and processes along with best practices for the entire org.
• Defining OKRs and KPIs to inform decision making and prioritization.

Qualifications

• BS/CS Computer Science or related field and 8+ years software development experience.
• Large/enterprise scale software development and engineering experience, particularly with cloud services and distributed systems.
• Domain knowledge and experience with playback, content augmentation, video transcoding and packaging, content delivery, streaming analytics, and flexible billing & cost analytics are highly desired.
• Experience as a lead developer in the design, implementation and operation of cloud services.
• Experience collaborating with geo-distributed teams.
• Extensive background and experience in software implementation, code and design review, failure root cause analysis.
• Designing for availability, observability, scalability and recoverability.

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Disclaimer: 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 to $251,600 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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 2. Short term disability and long term disability, 3. Life insurance and AD&D, 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child), 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts, 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits, 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match, 8. 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 working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days…