Sr. Principal - Consulting Member Technical Staff

Sr. Principal - Consulting Member of the Technical Staff

Redwood City, CA, United States;
Seattle, WA, United States

• Job Identification 319364
• Job Category Product Development
• Posting Date 01/05/2026, 05:23 PM
• 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

If you are passionate about advanced development of next-generation large‑scale distributed systems designed for the most popular database in the world and optimized for the cloud, we would like to talk with you. As a senior member of the database software engineering team, you will lead, innovate, influence, design, develop, and operate advanced features across cloud‑native scale highly available distributed systems, database core engine, operating systems, and storage subsystems.

The position will leverage your expertise in the following (or related) areas:

• Query processing or Transaction Processing
• System software, including operating system kernels
• Cloud computing
• Distributed Systems Protocols
• Machine learning

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experienced professionals with a PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Electrical & Computer Engineering
• At least 10+ years of professional experience
• Strong deep technical knowledge on database core internals, proficiency in systems design and development
• Proficiency in developing large production quality code in C++/C in a multi‑threaded environment, advanced data structures and algorithms
• Previous experience with MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, Aurora, Horizon DB, Alloy DB etc. is a BIG plus
• Demonstrated excellence in building and operating large scale and/or cloud native products and software services
• Excellent interpersonal and communication including writing & presentation skills
• Ability to effectively collaborate across functional boundaries in a fast paced agile development environment

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.

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands‑on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed, highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customers’ business critical applications.

We are reimagining what’s possible with infrastructure and core database systems to provide unparalleled performance and durability with our new large scale distributed services and world‑class infrastructure backend. Our services expose highly available, high‑performance capabilities for our large set of customers.

We’re looking for hands‑on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, storage infrastructure, transaction processing, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space — we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives.

An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

As a senior member of the database software engineering team, you will lead, innovate, influence, design, develop, and operate advanced features across cloud‑native scale highly available distributed systems, database core engine, operating systems, and storage subsystems. The responsibilities will include defining detailed design specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software.

The position will leverage your expertise in the following (or related) areas:

• Query processing or Transaction Processing
• System software, including…