Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle•Seattle, WA

1d•$114,600 - $234,600

About The Position

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex distributed systems problems, writing high-quality code, and owning services from design through production. You will work with a strong team of engineers, product managers, and operators to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services that customers depend on every day. You will design and develop backend services, distributed systems, and workflow orchestration capabilities for OCI, with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence. You will contribute to architecture discussions, make pragmatic technical decisions, and build systems that are highly scalable, simple to operate, and easy to evolve.

Requirements

Strong experience building backend services, large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or workflow orchestration platforms.
Experience designing and operating systems that handle high volume, high availability, and complex failure scenarios.
Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Python.
Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, and system design.
Experience designing APIs, service contracts, asynchronous workflows, and production-ready software components.
Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerized services, CI/CD, observability, and operational practices.
Ability to reason about reliability, latency, scalability, state transitions, retries, backpressure, and trade-offs.
Strong communication skills and a collaborative engineering mindset.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, test, and operate production-grade cloud services.
Build large-scale distributed systems with clear APIs, strong automation, and high availability.
Develop highly scalable workflows for orchestration, automation, provisioning, and lifecycle management.
Improve service reliability, observability, performance, and security at cloud scale.
Reason about concurrency, state management, failure recovery, idempotency, latency, and throughput.
Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and operational readiness reviews.
Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive long-term fixes.
Collaborate across teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through thoughtful technical leadership.

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 (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.