Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle•Nashville, TN

31d•$146,300 - $306,400

About The Position

OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) AI Infrastructure builds high-performance GPU platforms that support AI/ML/HPC workloads, scaling from tens to thousands of GPUs. The team designs and develops architectural changes for GPU delivery, health monitoring, testing, triage automation, and diagnostic services for distributed workloads using technologies such as RoCE and InfiniBand. As a Consulting Member of Technical Staff, you will own software design and development for major OCI components. The role calls for a lead developer and problem solver with distributed systems and/or Linux systems expertise, including systems triage experience and the ability to work across low-level systems and broad distributed-system interactions. The team works collaboratively in an agile environment and values simplicity, scalability, and continuous learning. The role is on the Compute AI Infrastructure In-Band Engineering team. The team builds infrastructure for automated testing of new platform shapes (AMD, Intel, Arm, and Nvidia), hardware bring-up, configuration, benchmarking, and debugging. Its services bridge bare-metal hardware and full-stack orchestration frameworks and interact with OCI APIs and services, NICs, SmartNICs, ILOMs, and GPUs. The team develops scalable services and tools to launch, configure, test, and validate server platforms across OCI’s Compute and GPU fleet. You will partner with Compute, Networking, Security, Data Center Engineering, and Hardware Development teams to launch and maintain server platforms with low operational overhead and high reliability, working directly with GPU hardware.

Requirements

BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a relevant technical field involving coding, or equivalent practical experience.
Deep understanding of operating systems, computer networks, and high-performance applications.
At least 6 years of experience delivering and operating large-scale production systems involving thousands of server instances.
Strong programming expertise in Java, Python, C, C++, or Go (Golang), and proficiency in shell scripting for systems development, automation, and troubleshooting.
Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, sense of ownership, and drive.
Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle.

Nice To Haves

Strong background in Linux systems.
Familiarity with system-level architecture, data synchronization, fault tolerance, and state management.
General enterprise storage, networking, or computing experience.
Experience with server/GPU hardware architecture and system management.
Experience with InfiniBand or RoCE networking technologies.
Hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service data planes.

Responsibilities

Own software design and development for major components of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Design and develop infrastructure for GPU delivery, health monitoring, testing, triage automation, and diagnostic services.
Build services and tooling to launch, configure, test, and validate server platforms across OCI Compute and GPU infrastructure.
Support automated platform testing, hardware bring-up, configuration, benchmarking, and debugging.
Work across low-level systems and distributed-system interactions, including systems triage.
Partner with Compute, Networking, Security, Data Center Engineering, and Hardware Development teams to launch, scale, and maintain server platforms reliably.