Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle•Nashville, TN

6d•$146,300 - $306,400

About The Position

This is an opportunity to solve foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems with broad impact across OCI. We are hiring Senior Principal engineers and leaders who are excited by large-scale cloud infrastructure, deployment orchestration, operational automation, and building trustworthy systems. You will help shape a new team and create the platforms that enable OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently at unprecedented scale.

Requirements

Foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems
Large-scale cloud infrastructure
Deployment orchestration
Operational automation
Building trustworthy systems
Platforms that enable OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently at unprecedented scale
Highly scalable, resilient distributed systems
Performance optimization
Elasticity
Data-plane innovation
Fault tolerance
SLO-based reliability
Advanced observability
Correctness
Replication
Operational standards
Complex incident resolution and RCAs
Security
Compliance
IaC
Automated change-management solutions

Responsibilities

Leads the architecture of highly scalable, resilient distributed systems and mentors engineering teams.
Drives performance optimization, elasticity, data-plane innovation, fault tolerance, and SLO-based reliability.
Establishes advanced observability, correctness, replication, and operational standards while leading complex incident resolution and RCAs.
Architects security, compliance, IaC, and automated change-management solutions for safe, reliable cloud operations at scale.