Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on solving complex distributed systems problems, writing high-quality code, and owning services from design through production. The engineer will work with engineers, product managers, and operators to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services for OCI. The role involves designing and developing backend services, distributed systems, and workflow orchestration capabilities, with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence. The engineer contributes to architecture discussions, makes pragmatic technical decisions, and builds systems that are scalable, straightforward to operate, and easy to evolve. As a member of the software engineering division, the engineer also takes an active role in defining and evolving standard practices and procedures.
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 or 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 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.
- Contribute to defining and evolving standard practices and procedures.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance and AD&D.
- Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
- 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 vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Financial planning and group legal benefits.
- Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
- Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
