Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer role at OCI offers opportunity to make significant impact by solving complex mission‑critical challenges with deep technical scope. Our Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team is building services and tools behind the world’s largest AI mega‑cluster. This service spans all aspects of logical and physical modeling for new data centers and data center networks—covering planning, design, delivery, and bootstrap—enabling OCI to expand its footprint in existing regions and launch entirely new ones.

We are seeking experienced software engineers ready to design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable services that power next‑generation AI infrastructure. If you’re driven to tackle new challenges and shape the future of cloud infrastructure, we’d like to hear from you.

As a Principal Software Engineer you will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock‑solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the 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.

• 5–12+ years experience designing, developing and operating large‑scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Java, C, or C++, and experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, etc.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of databases, No
  
  SQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
• Working familiarity with operating systems internals, networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Experience with network designs, modeling and network linking algorithms is a strong plus.

Disclaimer:
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 in USD from $96,800 – $223,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short‑term disability 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 is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non‑overtime eligible) position.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s challenges. We’ve partnered with industry leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity. We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.