Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer
About The Position
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is expanding its cloud offerings across public, dedicated, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge computing. Within OCI Core Infrastructure, this role provides technical leadership for the design, architecture, and delivery of next-generation cloud services and platforms at global scale. The engineer will help build foundational frameworks, container runtimes, distributed systems, persistent storage, networking solutions, data-plane components, and developer tools. The role focuses on complex system and data-plane architectures for one of two new OCI services. One described service is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL key-value store intended for high-volume, real-time workloads, with predictable single-digit millisecond read and write latency and automated infrastructure management, capacity provisioning, security, and backups. The posting also references a journaling service, but provides no further description of it. The successful candidate will be a recognized technical expert who can lead at-scale cloud engineering, set standards, collaborate across geographically distributed teams, and mentor engineers. The position offers opportunities to influence OCI priorities and work with engineering teams in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- More than 10 years of experience delivering distributed, mission-critical cloud services at large scale.
- Strong experience with C++ or C, and willingness to work with Rust.
- Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
- Experience in low-level, performance-critical system design and service development.
- Working experience with some of the following: filesystem journaling, high-performance distributed storage, Write-Ahead Logging (WAL), Raft, Paxos, or Multi-Paxos for distributed consistency.
- Strong teamwork, communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
- Comfort working in complex, rapidly evolving software development environments.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
- Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments.
- Strong mentorship abilities, including guiding and developing teams and aligning engineers with shared objectives.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale.
- Lead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks for highly available, demanding workloads.
- Direct development of high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions.
- Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI.
- Define and execute at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud.
- Deliver complex solutions for one of the new OCI services.
- Mentor and develop engineering teams, aligning engineers around shared objectives.
- Drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
- Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
- 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, including flexible or accrued vacation depending on eligibility and position.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Financial planning and group legal benefits.
- Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
- Eligible roles may receive a bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
