Principal Member of Technical Staff

Job Description

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 8 years of software engineering or related experience.

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer‑focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

Are you interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team is building new Infrastructure‑as‑a‑Service technologies that operate at a large scale in a broadly distributed multi‑tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best in class, foundational cloud infrastructure services. The Virtual Networking Team builds the highly customizable Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN) and connectivity services offering predictable and consistent performance, isolation, and availability.

We are a team that builds and maintains the OCI Software Defined Network (SDN) stack. Currently, we are looking for hands‑on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in high‑availability, virtualized networks, and network packet processing. These are exciting times, and our team is undergoing rapid growth while working on many new ambitious initiatives. Principal engineers are expected to lead small teams and will have significant technical and business impacts.

Join our team and help us build a state‑of‑the‑art SDN network.

The Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) team has a culture of collaboration that welcomes new people to their ranks. We not only focus on an excellent customer experience; we also spend the time to make sure that your onboarding and ramp‑up experience is a great one. We work together and help each other out, and do not skimp on technical debt, which facilitates reasonable on‑call and a good work/life balance.

As a member on the Dataplane team, you will design and develop major core components of Oracle’s Virtual Cloud Network. You will be responsible for delivering high‑speed packet processing architectures and other distributed systems that provide networking features such as TCP/UDP packet processing, access controls, metrics, and monitoring dashboards.

You are an expert coder with networking and embedded system experience. You value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and are excited to learn.

• 8+ years distributed cloud engineering experience in a software development environment
• Experience developing service‑oriented architectures and web services security solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear, concise manner to all audiences
• Excellent in making high…