Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure
About The Position
As part of the TSO/AOCI organization, our mission is to build Kilt, the platform on which OCI services are built, deployed, and operated across every region. We are investing in core platform capabilities that let service teams focus on their product rather than on the undifferentiated work of running it at scale, and we are doing it with a small group of engineers concentrated on high-leverage, low-level systems. Within Kilt, the Observability & Supervision team owns how the platform sees itself and reacts. We build the systems that collect metrics and logs from every host and service, evaluate that signal against what healthy is supposed to look like, escalate to the right owner with the right context, and increasingly act on their own, whether that means scaling capacity, triggering recovery, or adjusting behavior based on the live state of upstream dependencies. This is real-time distributed systems work with strict latency budgets, where a decision has to be both fast and correct under partial information, because a wrong action taken across a fleet is worse than no action at all. For this role, we are looking for engineers with a passion for understanding how systems fail, not only how they work. You should be comfortable designing distributed control loops, reasoning about performance and correctness at scale, and owning a component from design through production operation. You should value simplicity, be direct in technical discussion, and be excited by problems where the answer is not yet known. We are a small, growing team with broad ownership and real autonomy. You will work with motivated, diverse people who care about doing things well, and you will have the support to do your best work in a workplace where you belong.
Requirements
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of full-time professional experience in software development
- Demonstrated ability to write great code using Java, GoLang, or similar languages
- Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle
- Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure
- Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one livesite servicing
- Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive
- Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in one area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability, market-leading features and flexibility to meet future business demands
Responsibilities
- Design distributed control loops.
- Reason about performance and correctness at scale.
- Own a component from design through production operation.
- Build systems that collect metrics and logs from every host and service.
- Evaluate signal against what healthy is supposed to look like.
- Escalate to the right owner with the right context.
- Act on system state to scale capacity, trigger recovery, or adjust behavior.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
