Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer
About The Position
Oracle Core Infrastructure builds mission-critical cloud applications and services, with deployments in more than 50 regions. Its organization supports customer choice, transparency, and value in cloud infrastructure, and is developing canonical implementations of core data-plane components to improve engineering efficiency through high-performance, low-level systems used by OCI services. The role will lead development of a new OCI key-value store designed to support billions of keys and millions of requests per second with sub-millisecond latencies. The engineer will help deliver a new OCI service from scratch, working with senior architects and leaders on challenging systems, data-plane, and performance problems. The role calls for a strong hands-on developer who can work across low-level systems and broad distributed-system design, prioritizing simplicity, scale, and collaboration. As a technical leader, the engineer will shape and drive software design and development for major cloud data-plane components, define foundations for next-generation OCI data planes, and make architectural decisions. The position combines strategic technical guidance with hands-on work, including design documentation, peer reviews, prototyping, code reviews, and project bootstrapping. It also includes mentoring junior team members, working with Engineering Managers and TPMs, improving engineering practices, and promoting operational excellence, service quality, automation, and customer focus.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
- Strong experience with C/C++ and willingness to work on Rust.
- Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
- Experience in low-level, performance-critical system design and service development.
- Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
- Strong communication, organization, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
- Comfort working in complex, rapidly evolving software development environments.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes.
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
- Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments.
- Demonstrated mentorship ability, including guiding and developing teams and aligning engineers around shared objectives.
- Established track record of leading large, cloud-scale projects.
Nice To Haves
- Working experience with high-performance distributed storage.
- Working experience with Write-Ahead Logging (WAL).
- Working experience with indexing strategies such as B-trees or LSM trees.
- Working experience with data partitioning or sharding.
- Working experience with Raft, Paxos, or Multi-Paxos for distributed consistency.
- Working experience with transaction management such as MVCC.
- Working experience with distributed transactions.
- Working experience with CAP theorem trade-offs.
Responsibilities
- Envision and drive the software design and development of major Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data-plane components.
- Collaborate with executives on investment decisions and provide strategic technical guidance to senior leadership, influencing organization-wide goals and alignment across initiatives.
- Define foundations for next-generation OCI data planes and make deep architectural decisions for large-scale cloud projects.
- Perform software development tasks involving the development, design, and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
- Define and evolve standard engineering practices and procedures.
- Work with Engineering Managers and TPMs and provide direct guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
- Produce high-level system designs and architectural documentation, and drive engineering peer reviews.
- Conduct hands-on prototyping, code reviews, and project bootstrapping.
- Balance delivery speed and quality through iteration and incremental improvement.
- Automate and instrument services and drive process and service improvements for developers and teams.
- Promote operational excellence, high-quality engineering, and customer focus.
- Drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes.
Benefits
- Medical insurance, including access to expert medical opinion.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Short-term disability insurance.
- Long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance and AD&D.
- 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.
- Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position.
- 11 paid holidays.
- 72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshed annually, with unused balance carried over up to a 112-hour cap.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Financial planning and group legal benefits.
- Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
- Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
- Volunteer programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
