Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
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 turn infrastructure designs into working networks and coordinate changes as capacity grows, supporting the reliable, high-performance networks connecting GPU infrastructure for AI training and inference. This hands-on individual contributor role shapes the architecture and evolution of distributed services for network modeling, configuration, and lifecycle operations across OCI’s AI and cloud infrastructure. The engineer will define architecture, write and review critical code, lead complex initiatives through production, and mentor engineers, with technical influence across teams. The work involves distributed systems challenges including maintaining consistent network state, coordinating concurrent changes, recovering from partial failures, and introducing automation that protects availability. The role partners with network engineering, infrastructure delivery, operations, and adjacent software teams to deliver capabilities into production. Oracle describes the position as Career Level IC5.
Requirements
- At least 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 clearly explaining their tradeoffs.
- 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.
- Define architecture, write and review critical code, and lead complex initiatives through production.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short-term disability and long-term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance for employee, spouse, and child
- 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 paid vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position
- 11 paid holidays
- 72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshing each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a 112-hour cap
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal benefits
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance
- May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral
- Volunteer programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
