Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Network Modeling and Control team builds software that models physical networks and enables their configuration, expansion, and safe operation. The services translate infrastructure designs into working networks and coordinate changes as capacity grows, including for GPU infrastructure and AI workloads. The Lead Principal Software Engineer will shape the architecture and evolution of these distributed services. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with technical influence across teams: the engineer will define architecture, write and review critical code, lead complex initiatives through production, and mentor engineers. The work addresses distributed-systems challenges such as consistent network state, concurrent changes, partial-failure recovery, and automation that protects availability. The role partners with network engineering, infrastructure delivery, operations, and adjacent software teams to bring capabilities into production and improve service reliability, performance, and scalability.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial experience designing and operating distributed systems.
Strong programming skills and a record of delivering complex production software.
Deep understanding of concurrency, consistency, fault tolerance, API design, and persistent state.
Experience making architectural decisions across services and explaining their tradeoffs clearly.
Evidence of leading complex initiatives across teams while remaining close to implementation.
Strong judgment about reliability, operational readiness, and safe infrastructure changes.

Nice To Haves

Experience with infrastructure software supporting AI/ML platforms, GPU clusters, or large-scale compute environments.
Experience with network automation, network modeling, configuration management, or infrastructure control systems.
Experience with workflow orchestration, reconciliation, or scheduling across distributed resources.
Experience with model-based testing, formal methods, or other techniques for verifying complex state transitions.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and hands-on development for distributed services supporting network modeling, configuration, and lifecycle operations across OCI’s AI and cloud infrastructure.
Evolve network models, APIs, and automation to support expanding GPU infrastructure and new network architectures.
Design reliable workflows for concurrent and long-running changes, including state management, retries, recovery, and rollback.
Build safety into network automation through validation, controlled rollout, observability, and limits on the scope of failures.
Improve service performance and scalability to accelerate infrastructure provisioning and network changes.
Partner with network engineering, infrastructure delivery, operations, and adjacent software teams to bring new capabilities into production.
Own major technical initiatives from problem definition through implementation, rollout, and measurable production outcomes.
Mentor engineers and use production experience to improve architecture, reduce recurring failures, and eliminate manual work.
Write and review critical code and lead complex initiatives through production.