Principal Software Engineer

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Principal Software Engineer at Oracle

As a Principal Engineer in this space, you will have ownership of key technical components and services. You will drive 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 senior team member to influence and drive progress.

• Research state of the art in 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.
• Launch new cloud services and establish operational excellence.
• Lead implementation to realize and achieve the technical vision of the team.
• Engage with geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Coach, mentor, and develop best talent.
• Establish and stimulate software development standards and processes along with best practices for the entire org.
• Define OKRs and KPIs to inform decision making and prioritization.

• BS/CS in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of 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.

Certain US customer or client‑facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

US:
Hiring Range – $96,800 to $223,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short‑term 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; 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 annually thereafter; prorated for 20–34 hours per week; not eligible for < 20 hours.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshes yearly, unused balance carries over up to 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave, adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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