Sr Principal Software Engineer​/Consulting Member of Technical Staff

Sr Principal Software Engineer/Consulting Member of Technical Staff

Join Oracle to apply for the Sr Principal Software Engineer/Consulting Member of Technical Staff role. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) enables you to build and operate massive‑scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi‑tenant environment. OCI is committed to delivering best‑in‑class cloud products that help customers tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. This role offers opportunities to work on highly available, distributed services and virtualized infrastructure that have a significant technical and business impact.

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud services
• Proven track record of owning large features end‑to‑end: problem definition, design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation (SLOs/metrics)
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems concepts
• Deep knowledge of Linux and Linux internals (process scheduling, memory management, file systems, networking)
• Experience designing multi‑tenant, highly available, and scalable services (HA, DR, capacity planning)
• Proficiency in one or more of:
  Java, Go, C/C++, or Rust; plus scripting (Python/Bash)
• Production‑grade observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and performance profiling/tuning
• Security‑mindful engineering: secure coding, auth
  
  N/Z, TLS, secrets management
• Experience working on open source software/contributions to open source Redis/memcached/Cassandra/PSQL is a strong plus

• Work with architects and business stakeholders to deliver new features/services and improvements, building enhancements, new components, and new services within an existing architecture.
• Debug operational issues, raise the operational bar, and improve scalability of services.
• Assist customers with onboarding to the service as needed.
• Perform on‑call operations duties on a rotating basis.
• Reimagine service experiences and deliver proof points that improve the service across dimensions such as semantic understanding, usability, cost to serve, availability, and storage tiering.
• Provide technical leadership to drive critical work items, unlocking onboarding of large customers, service scalability, and new product initiatives.
• Drive roadmap/vision/competitive analysis and bootstrap work streams to keep pace with landscape changes.
• Build consensus across stakeholders and collaborate on business cases to seek executive leadership approval.
• Make informed build/buy/partnership decisions using technical acumen and foresight.

• Excellent design, architecture, leadership, and coding skills.
• Software engineering and architecture experience with distributed systems/managed services within large‑scale environments.
• 10+ years of experience working on challenging issues with a self‑starter and self‑motivated attitude.
• Hands‑on operations experience in a Dev Ops environment and a track record of delivering results blended with innovation and operational agility.

We will consider candidates with a PhD in Computer Science disciplines and 4+ years of industry experience.

• US:
  Hiring range USD $96,800 – $251,600 per year. Eligibility for bonus and equity.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability, life insurance, supplemental life insurance, health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre‑tax commuter and parking benefits, 401(k) with company match, paid time off (vacation, sick leave, parental leave, adoption assistance), employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
• 11 paid holidays and paid sick leave (72 hours at hire, refreshed annually up to 112 hours).
• Flexible vacation accrual (13 days for first three years, 18 days thereafter, prorated for part‑time). Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

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.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle may consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.