Principal Software Developer
Listed on 2026-01-07
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps, Backend Developer
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Job DescriptionAre you interested in working on the Storage Infrastructure team that operates with exabytes of data in 60+ regions? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with industry‑leading computing, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever‑expanding set of foundational cloud‑based services. Our team seeks hands‑on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed systems, large‑scale storage, and scaling services to meet future growth.
If this is you, you can be part of the team that drives the best‑in‑class Storage platform into its next development phase. These are exciting times for the service – we are growing fast and delivering innovative, enterprise‑class features to satisfy various customer workloads.
We’re looking for hands‑on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available storage services. As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will own the software design and development for major components of the Storage Service Infrastructure. You should be both a rock‑solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the Control Plane stack and low‑level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions.
You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.
- 10+ years of experience delivering large scale, highly available distributed systems and backend services.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multi‑threading, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Extensive experience developing clean code in Java (or similar object‑oriented language), as well as scripting languages such as Python.
- Strong understanding of storage systems (block / object / file) and distributed persistence technologies.
- System design experience on designing complex distributed system with ultra low latency and very high throughput.
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 – $223,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity. 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.
- 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 salaried employees, accrual described above
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave – 72 hours per hire, refreshes each year up to 112 hours
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal services
- Voluntary benefits – auto, homeowner and pet insurance
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