Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

13d•$114,600 - $234,600•Onsite

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for its Host Provisioning Services (HoPS) team. HoPS owns infrastructure that automates the server lifecycle, from rack integration and hardware bring-up to customer-ready instance provisioning and firmware management. Its services interface with bare-metal components including BMCs, NICs, SmartNICs, ILOMs, GPUs, and custom firmware, and provide tooling to provision, configure, secure, and validate server platforms across OCI’s global fleet. The Principal Engineer will architect and deliver highly available services and automation pipelines for hyperscale server provisioning, deterministic customer environments through firmware pinning, fleet-wide firmware updates, and telemetry-based observability. The role will support new silicon platforms, SmartNIC/HostNIC convergence, Root of Trust (RoT) security integration, and next-generation clusters and composable hardware environments. The engineer will partner with Compute, Networking, Security, Datacenter Engineering, and Hardware Development teams. The position requires working onsite in Nashville, Tennessee; candidates must live locally or be willing to relocate to the Nashville area.

Requirements

Experience developing distributed Linux systems.
Must be able and willing to work onsite in Nashville, TN, by living locally or relocating to the Nashville area.

Nice To Haves

Expertise in BMC, BIOS, EC2, Linux, Java, and Python.
Experience developing software that manages firmware.
Deep understanding of operating systems, hardware-software integration, distributed services, and cloud-scale automation.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain provisioning, firmware-management, and hardware lifecycle services.
Support qualification and onboarding of new server, GPU, NIC, SmartNIC, and storage platforms.
Build automation for firmware validation, metadata generation, compliance checks, and deployment readiness.
Investigate and resolve production issues across provisioning, firmware, and hardware-management systems.
Improve service reliability, scalability, and operational documentation.
Provide on-call support for customer fleet issues in OCI data centers.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, production-ready hardware launches.
Participate in design reviews, code reviews, on-call support, and post-incident improvements.
Architect and deliver highly available services and automation pipelines for server provisioning at hyperscale, firmware pinning, fleet-wide firmware updates, and telemetry-based observability.
Drive solutions for new silicon platforms, SmartNIC/HostNIC convergence, RoT security integration, and next-generation clusters and composable hardware environments.